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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
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Docker Quick Start Guide

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source software platform that helps you with creating, deploying, and running your applications using containers. This book is your ideal introduction to Docker and containerization. You will learn how to set up a Docker development environment on a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation, and learn your way around all the commands to run and manage your Docker images and containers. You will explore the Dockerfile and learn how to build your own enterprise-grade Docker images. Then you will learn about Docker networks, Docker swarm, and Docker volumes, and how to use these features with Docker stacks in order to define, deploy, and maintain highly-scalable, fault-tolerant multi-container applications. Finally, you will learn how to leverage Docker with Jenkins to automate the building of Docker images and the deployment of Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be well prepared when it comes to using Docker for your next project.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

Wow! We covered a lot in this first chapter. You should now be able to install Docker on your workstation, regardless of the OS that it is running. You should be able to install Docker onto a Linux workstation using three different methods, and know some of the differences between installing on an RPM-based system and a DEB-based system.

We also covered some very significant reasons why you might consider using a Linux workstation for your development, instead of using a Windows or macOS workstation. And by now, you should be able to easily validate the successful installation of Docker by checking the version of Docker installed.

You should be able to easily confirm that Docker is working as desired by running a hello-world container. Not bad for your first chapter, right? Well, with this foundation, and your newly Docker-ready workstation, let's move right into Chapter 2, Learning Docker Commands, where we will learn about many Docker commands you'll use every day.

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