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Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare
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Book Image

Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

2 (1)
By: Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source tool used for creating, deploying, and running applications using containers. With more than 100 self-contained tutorials, this book examines common pain points and best practices for developers building distributed applications with Docker. Each recipe in this book addresses a specific problem and offers a proven, best practice solution with insights into how it works, so that you can modify the code and configuration files to suit your needs. The Docker Cookbook begins by guiding you in setting up Docker in different environments and explains how to work with its containers and images. You’ll understand Docker orchestration, networking, security, and hosting platforms for effective collaboration and efficient deployment. The book also covers tips and tricks and new Docker features that support a range of other cloud offerings. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to package and deploy end-to-end distributed applications with Docker and be well-versed with best practice solutions for common development problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Testing with Docker

While doing development or QA, it will be helpful if we can check our code against different environments. For example, we may need to check our Python code between different versions of Python, or on different Linux distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, and so on. For this recipe, we will use Flask, which is a microframework for Python (https://www.palletsprojects.com/p/flask/). We will use the sample code from Flask's GitHub repository. I chose this to keep things simple, and it is easier to use for other recipes as well.

For this recipe, we will create images with one container with Python 2.7 and another with Python 3.7. We'll then use sample Python test code to run against each container.

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