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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

By : Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

By: Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker

Overview of this book

Docker containers have revolutionized the software supply chain in small and big enterprises. Never before has a new technology so rapidly penetrated the top 500 enterprises worldwide. Companies that embrace containers and containerize their traditional mission-critical applications have reported savings of at least 50% in total maintenance cost and a reduction of 90% (or more) of the time required to deploy new versions of those applications. Furthermore they are benefitting from increased security just by using containers as opposed to running applications outside containers. This book starts from scratch, introducing you to Docker fundamentals and setting up an environment to work with it. Then we delve into concepts such as Docker containers, Docker images, Docker Compose, and so on. We will also cover the concepts of deployment, orchestration, networking, and security. Furthermore, we explain Docker functionalities on public clouds such as AWS. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Docker containers and orchestrators such as SwarmKit and Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Attaching to a running container


We can use the attachcommand to attach our Terminal's standard input, output, and error (or any combination of the three) to a running container using the ID or name of the container. Let's do this for our quotes container:

$ docker container attach quotes

In this case, we will see every five seconds or so a new quote appearing in the output.

To quit the container without stopping or killing it, we can press the key combination Ctrl+P Ctrl+Q. This detaches us from the container while leaving it running in the background. On the other hand, if we want to detach and stop the container at the same time, we can just press Ctrl+C.

Let's run another container, this time an Nginx web server:

$ docker run -d --name nginx -p 8080:80 nginx:alpine

Here, we run the Alpine version of Nginx as a daemon in a container named nginx. The -p 8080:80 command-line parameter opens port 8080 on the host for access to the Nginx web server running inside the container. Don't worry about...