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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

Questions


Please try to answer the following questions to assess your learning progress:

  1. How will you create a named data volume with a name, for example my-products, using the default driver?
  2. How will you run a container using the image alpine and mount the volume  my-products in read-only mode into the /data container folder?
  3. How will you locate the folder which is associated with the volume my-products and navigate to it?  Also, how will you create a file, sample.txt with some content?
  4. How will you run another alpine container to which you mount the my-products volume to the /app-data folder, in read/write mode? Inside this container, navigate to the /app-data folder and create a hello.txt file with some content.
  5. How will you mount a host volume, for example ~/my-project, into a container?
  6. How will you remove all unused volumes from your system?
  7. How will you determine the exact version of the Linux kernel and of Docker running on your system?