15 Best Docker Courses for Beginners
We compared 15 Docker courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $49.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including 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
- $19.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, 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 $19.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
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 -
2
Symfony 6 with Docker for beginners
This course is tailor-made for aspiring web developers keen on mastering the latest web development techniques using Docker and the Symfony PHP framework. This Docker and Symfony tutorial offers a systematic approa...
$24.99listed price -
3
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 -
4
Real Time Spark Project for Beginners: Hadoop, Spark, Docker
In many data centers, different type of servers generate large amount of data(events, Event in this case is status of the server in the data center) in real-time. There is always a need to process these data in real-time...
$19.99listed price -
5
Learn Docker For Absolute Beginners
Are you just starting out with Docker? Awesome. This course starts out assuming you're new to containers and have no prior experience with Docker.This course is aimed at absolute beginners who would like to learn how to...
$19.99listed price -
6
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 -
7
Linux for beginners with Hands-on Labs
Offered by KodeKloud
Why You Should Learn Linux As per Stack overflow’s insights, the most common and the most loved platform happens to be Linux. If you do a quick search online on Linux you’ll see some interesting statistics. All of the fa...
$49.00listed price -
8
Apache Kafka Fundamentals & Core Architecture
Offered by KodeKloud
Imagine building systems that react instantly to streams of data—fraud alerts triggered within milliseconds, dashboards pulsing with live updates, and digital platforms scaling to millions of users in real time. In this...
$49.00listed price -
9
Kubernetes for Beginners
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 -
10
Container and Container Orchestration Fundamentals
Offered by LearnKartS
Containers break in production when teams build without a system. This course gives your team that system. It covers Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Compose: all in one path. Here is what your team will build: • Docker Image...
$49.00listed price -
11
Introduction to Microservices with .NET 8 and CQRS
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 -
12
Learn YAML from Scratch
What is YAML?YAML stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language. It is a very popular data serialization format for storing configuration data or exchanging data between people and computers. It is more human-readable and concis...
$19.99listed price -
13
Introduction to Qdrant (Vector Database) Using Python
Qdrant is an Open Source vector database with in-built vector similarity search engine. Qdrant is written in Rust and is proven to be fast and reliable even under high load in production environment. Qdrant provides conv...
$19.99listed price -
14
Ultimate DevOps Beginners Course | Cloud Engineering Pre-req
Embark on a transformative learning experience with our comprehensive "Ultimate DevOps Beginners Course." This in-depth program is designed to empower you with the fundamental knowledge and practical skills required to n...
$19.99listed price -
15
Introduction to Sequelize ORM (w/ Express.js + Postgres)
Hi and welcome to this course! Here, you will learn A LOT about how to build a simple backend with production-level code. We are going to learn how to set up a local database with Docker, how to use Express.js with Seque...
$19.99listed price
Best Docker Courses for Beginners 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 $19.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $29.01. 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 and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Johns Hopkins University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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