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Learning Docker - Second Edition

By : Vinod Singh, Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai
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Learning Docker - Second Edition

By: Vinod Singh, Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source containerization engine that offers a simple and faster way for developing and running software. Docker containers wrap software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run, enabling any application to be run anywhere – this flexibily and portabily means that you can run apps in the cloud, on virtual machines, or on dedicated servers. This book will give you a tour of the new features of Docker and help you get started with Docker by building and deploying a simple application. It will walk you through the commands required to manage Docker images and containers. You’ll be shown how to download new images, run containers, list the containers running on the Docker host, and kill them. You’ll learn how to leverage Docker’s volumes feature to share data between the Docker host and its containers – this data management feature is also useful for persistent data. This book also covers how to orchestrate containers using Docker compose, debug containers, and secure containers using the AppArmor and SELinux security modules.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Let's start our Docker journey with the docker version subcommand, as shown here:"

A block of code is set as follows:

FROM busybox 
RUN ls -lh
CMD echo Hello world

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

FROM busybox 
RUN ls -lh
CMD echo Hello world

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

 $ sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Now, clicking on the Start using Jenkins button will take you to the Welcome to Jenkins! page."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.