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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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Knowledge Check: Containers → Kubernetes


1. Does Kubernetes replace Docker/containers?

Answer: No — Kubernetes orchestrates containers across many machines; it runs on top of the same container concepts this course taught, not instead of them.


2. Name one thing Kubernetes adds that a single-machine docker run/Compose setup fundamentally can't do.

Answer: Any reasonable answer from: scheduling across multiple machines, automatic reconciliation to a desired state after a failure, service discovery across many changing instances, automated health-based replacement, demand-based scaling, or coordinated rollout across a fleet.


3. What does "desired state" mean, in the sense this lesson introduced it?

Answer: You declare what SHOULD be running; the orchestrator continuously works to make actual reality match that declaration, including automatically after a failure — rather than a person having to manually notice and fix drift.


4. Why doesn't this course teach Kubernetes directly, ending here instead?

Answer: This course's job was building the container/Linux/Git foundation Kubernetes assumes — ROOT 05 builds on exactly this foundation to teach Kubernetes itself.

Instructor Notes

Facilitation: Question 2 is worth collecting several different answers from the group — the variety itself is evidence the "why Kubernetes" question actually landed.

Approximate timing: 5 minutes.