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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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# Guided Exercise: Predict What Survives Before You Test It
This is a paper exercise — commit to predictions before working in the Lab.
## Your task
For each scenario, predict whether the data survives a `docker rm -f` followed by recreating a
container with the same name and image:
1. Data written to `/tmp/file.txt` inside a container with no volumes configured.
2. Data written to `/data/file.txt`, where `/data` is mounted from a named volume.
3. Data written to `/data/file.txt` in scenario 2, but this time you ALSO run
`docker volume rm <the-volume>` before recreating the container.
## A worked shape to check yourself against
1. Lost — no volume, so it lived only in the disposable writable layer.
2. Survives — the volume itself is untouched by the container's destruction, and the new
container reattaches to the same volume.
3. Lost — the volume itself was explicitly deleted, not just the container. Persistence depends
on the VOLUME surviving, not just avoiding container destruction.
## Instructor Notes
**Facilitation:** Item 3 is the important trick question — students who've internalized
"volumes always persist" without qualification should be corrected here: the volume itself can
still be deleted deliberately.
**Approximate timing:** 8-10 minutes live discussion; 5 minutes self-paced.