I would simply familiarize with just the basics because you don't have to go much further than that to make use of it for research purposes. My usual process involves breaking the process down into multiple stages (cleansing, conformance, testing, reporting), including a data dir, and finally creating a dockerfile that simply adds the data/source to a simple hierarchy and includes all dependencies. As long as you know how to build a dockerfile, you're golden. You can then upload the image to dockerhub, and have somebody else pull the image and run it to reproduce your entire environment. Helps a ton for online DS courses and MOOCs.