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Adds all 8 ROOT 04 modules (why containers exist, images & containers, Docker CLI, container
networking, container storage, Dockerfile & image build, Docker Compose, containers →
Kubernetes) — 43 activities, using the nested Docker Engine Phase 6D built and tested. Modules
1, 2, and 8 are conceptual (no lab by design) — the honest bridge module (M8) explicitly names
what Kubernetes adds beyond what this course already taught, without re-teaching Kubernetes
itself.

Adds 5 new hands-on Docker scenarios plus 2 MCQs, all against the real nested Docker Engine:
docker-cli-basics (run/exec/inspect a real container), docker-container-networking (a genuine
"works internally, unreachable from host" port-publishing failure, diagnosed and fixed by
recreating the container with the correct `-p` flag), docker-container-storage (a real
destroy/recreate cycle proving named-volume persistence, not just described), docker-build-image
(a real Dockerfile, a real build, a real custom image run), and docker-compose-multiservice (a
real two-service Compose application with a real published port). All tested end-to-end via the
real scenario-validation API, including negative tests.

Wires rootnode-containers-assessment (2 required + 4 random-draw scenarios) using the existing
Phase 3B assessment engine.

This completes the entire ROOT_ Foundations sequence (ROOT 01-04) — see
docs/PHASE6E_ROOT_FOUNDATIONS_COMPLETION.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-26 17:08:14 -05:00

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Demonstration: One Image, Many Independent Containers

OBSERVE

$ docker images | grep alpine
alpine   3.19   a1b2c3d4e5f6   2 weeks ago   7.4MB

Exactly one alpine:3.19 image exists locally right now.

HYPOTHESIS

Predict: after running three containers from it, how many images will docker images show?

INSPECT

$ docker run -d --name c1 alpine:3.19 sleep 300
$ docker run -d --name c2 alpine:3.19 sleep 300
$ docker run -d --name c3 alpine:3.19 sleep 300
$ docker images | grep alpine
alpine   3.19   a1b2c3d4e5f6   2 weeks ago   7.4MB

Still exactly one image — confirmed.

CHANGE

$ docker ps --format '{{.Names}}: {{.ID}}'
c3: 9f8e7d6c5b4a
c2: 3d2c1b0a9f8e
c1: 7c6b5a4d3e2f

Three DIFFERENT containers, each with its own ID, all created from that same one image.

VERIFY

$ docker rm -f c1 c2 c3
$ docker images | grep alpine
alpine   3.19   a1b2c3d4e5f6   2 weeks ago   7.4MB

Removing all three containers left the image completely untouched — proving containers and the image they came from have independent lifecycles.

Instructor Notes

Demo goal: Make the 1-image-many-containers relationship undeniable by actually counting both before and after, rather than just stating it.

Approximate timing: 8 minutes live.

Common mistake to watch for: assuming docker rm on a container also removes its image — a good moment to reinforce that images and containers have separate removal commands (docker rm for containers, docker rmi for images) for exactly this reason.