Docker in Action – Scavenger Hunt

I’m working my way through Docker in Action by Jeff Nickoloff, and I love the scavenger hunt he puts together for chapter 3. I’ve read LOTS of computer texts and this is the first scavenger hunt that I have seen.

Cool approach!

Spoiler Alert Follows

The basic concept is that he has you run an interactive Docker container that asks for a password which you don’t have. Then you must search through the Docker Hub site for the book looking for the which docker contain to run in order to get the password.

The object lesson in all of this is to learn how to search https://hub.docker.com to find software you may want to use.

When you do find the right “mystery” container it returns a long string of text that is the password you enter. There’s no $Million Dollar prize, but it is still a novel and entertaining way to introduce Docker Hub.