Installing the sample application

Now that you have set up your local environment to support Docker and the various tools required to complete this book, it's time to install the sample application for this course.

The sample application is a simple Todo items web service called todobackend that provides a REST API that allows you to create, read, update, and delete Todo items (for example, Wash the car or Walk the dog).  This application is a Python application based on Django, which is a popular framework for creating web applications. You can read more about this at https://www.djangoproject.com/.  Don't worry if you are not familiar with Python – the sample application is already created for you and all you need to do as you read through this book is build and test the application, package and publish the application as a Docker image, and then deploy your application using the various container management platforms discussed in this book.