Welcome to ShipShape

📡 ShipShape

Your launch dock for learning DevOps and Containerization.

🚀 What We’ll Learn

We’re going from “wait… how does this app actually get deployed?” to “yep, I shipped that”:

🐳 Containers with Docker — images, containers, Dockerfiles, and repeatable environments
🧩 Multi-Service Development — Docker Compose, networks, volumes, and app + database workflow
☁️ Deployment — preparing apps for production and getting them live on the internet
🔐 Configuration — environment variables, secrets, and sane production setup
📦 Delivery Workflow — the path from laptop to running service
👀 Production Awareness — logging, monitoring, versioning, and deployment history

🧠 The Mindset

This isn’t “memorize DevOps.”
It’s learning how modern application delivery works — so you can reason about packaging, deployment, and runtime behavior with confidence.

We’ll use:

🤖 AI-assisted learning (Watts still clocks in on time)
🧱 Hands-on builds — small steps, real deployment outcomes
🧭 Practical patterns — workflows that make sense outside the classroom too

🔧 Prerequisites

Bring:

A code editor
Basic comfort with JavaScript and Node.js
Git/GitHub familiarity
A willingness to break stuff… and then ship it cleanly 🔥

🎬 Next Steps

Ready to go from local app to deployed service?
👉 Course Introduction