15 Best Docker Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Docker courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including Duke University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "docker" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Virtualization, Docker, and Kubernetes for Data Engineering
Offered by Duke University
Throughout this course, you'll explore virtualization, containerization, and Kubernetes, mastering the very tools that power data engineering in the industry. Each week presents a new set of tools and platforms that are...
$49.00listed price -
2
Enhancing Reproducible Science with GitHub and Docker
Offered by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Johns Hopkins University
This Specialization is intended for scientific researchers who work with data and want to make their analyses yield consistent results regardless of who conducts the analysis or when it is run. The four topic courses and...
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3
Build and Orchestrate Applications with Docker
Offered by EDUCBA
Learners will be able to explain core Docker concepts, build and manage containerized applications, configure Docker environments, and implement container orchestration using Docker Compose and Docker Swarm. By the end o...
$49.00listed price -
4
Docker Basics for DevOps
Offered by KodeKloud
Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud. This course introduces Docker to an Absolute Beginner using rea...
$49.00listed price -
5
Docker and Kubernetes Masterclass: From Beginner to Advanced
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
6
DevOps Pro: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD & IaC
Offered by KodeKloud
This is a complete, skills-first program that takes you from Linux system administration to provisioning global cloud infrastructure with code. Across five courses, you'll build every layer of the modern DevOps stack — n...
$49.00listed price -
7
Docker and Kubernetes for ASP.NET Development
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
8
Build & Publish Versioned Docker Images
Offered by Coursera
Transform your data engineering workflows with enterprise-grade containerization skills that eliminate "works on my machine" problems forever. This Short Course empowers data engineers to master the critical containeriza...
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9
Real World DevOps Project with Ansible, Docker and GitLab
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
10
Git, Docker & CI/CD: DevOps Foundations for Data Engineers
Offered by Coursera
Manual deployments break. Unmanaged environments drift. Unresolved merge conflicts cost teams hours. For data engineers, these are not occasional inconveniences — they are production risks. This program gives you the too...
$49.00listed price -
11
Analyze and Deploy Applications Using Docker Containers
Offered by EDUCBA
This Specialization provides a comprehensive, hands-on pathway to mastering Docker containerization for modern application deployment. Learners progress from Docker fundamentals to advanced, real-world use cases, includi...
$49.00listed price -
12
Build a CI/CD Pipeline with Docker: From Code to Deployment
Offered by Coursera
Did you know that manual deployment processes can significantly delay application releases, causing inefficiencies in even the most agile teams? This Guided Project was created to help DevOps enthusiasts and professional...
$9.99listed price -
13
Containerize Spring Boot CRUD with Docker and Docker Compose
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
14
Apply Docker Fundamentals for Modern Application Delivery
Offered by EDUCBA
Learners will be able to explain containerization concepts, apply Docker fundamentals, execute core Docker commands, and analyze container startup behavior in real-world development workflows. This course provides a clea...
$49.00listed price -
15
Introduction to Reproducibility in Cancer Informatics
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
The course is intended for students in the biomedical sciences and researchers who use informatics tools in their research and have not had training in reproducibility tools and methods. This course is written for indivi...
$49.00listed price
Best Docker Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Duke University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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