The Only Docker Project Every DevOps Engineer Must Build

🚀 Want to containerise a full-stack app the right way and avoid bloat?
In this video, I walk you step-by-step through building and containerising a 3-tier application (React + Node.js + MySQL) — and then show you exactly how I reduced Docker image size from 959MB → 49MB using best practices! 💥

🔧 This isn’t just another "Docker for beginners" tutorial…
You’ll learn a real-world DevOps mindset, like:
Using lightweight base images
Setting multi-stage builds
Optimising Node.js & MySQL images
Writing a scalable Docker Compose setup
Auto-creating database tables on startup

Fixing errors like missing tables, optimising health checks, and even exposing safe ENV variables

🎯 What you’ll build:
📦 Full-stack student-teacher portal
🧩 React frontend
🛠 Node.js backend
🗄 MySQL database

🧠 Skills You'll Learn:
Dockerfile best practices
Image size comparison techniques
Docker networking & multi-container setup
Debugging Docker build issues
How to make your container builds faster and cleaner

📁 Code Repo & Docs:
🔗 https://github.com/AmanPathak-DevOps/...
🔗 https://blog.stackademic.com/deploy-m...

🔧 Tech Stack:
React
Node.js with MySQL2
Docker & Docker Compose

Optimised multi-stage builds (and single-stage examples)

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💬 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/AmanPathak-DevOps/
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