Book Image

Mastering Docker Enterprise

By : Mark Panthofer
Book Image

Mastering Docker Enterprise

By: Mark Panthofer

Overview of this book

While known mostly as the open source engine behind tens of millions of server nodes, Docker also offers commercially supported enterprise tooling known as the Docker Enterprise. This platform leverages the deep roots from Docker Engine - Community (formerly Docker CE) and Kubernetes, but adds support and tooling to efficiently operate a secure container platform at scale. With hundreds of enterprises on board, best practices and adoption patterns are emerging rapidly. These learning points can be used to inform adopters and help manage the enterprise transformation associated with enterprise container adoption. This book starts by explaining the case for Docker Enterprise, as well as its structure and reference architecture. From there, we progress through the PoC,pilot and production stages as a working model for adoption, evolving the platform’s design and configuration for each stage and using detailed application examples along the way to clarify and demonstrate important concepts.The book concludes with Docker’s impact on other emerging software technologies, such as Blockchain and Serverless computing. By the end of this book, you’ll have a better understanding of what it takes to get your enterprise up and running with Docker Enterprise and beyond.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Docker Enterprise
5
Section 2: Piloting Docker Enterprise
10
Section 3: In Production with Docker Enterprise

Taking the Docker Enterprise Platform into the Future

Containers are a core-enabling technology for microservices, serverless, ML/AI, streaming, blockchain, and IoT, but they are also playing a key role in reducing the operational and support costs of traditional applications on Windows and Linux platforms. That said, it appears that containers will impact any organization that hosts web-based APIs, and service/headless applications. So, whether you are an old line business reinventing yourself or a cutting edge technology company, containers are most likely in your future. So, what's your container strategy? 

I used to talk about container-first strategies, but I am reminded of Peter Drucker's famous quote:

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."

In my experience, there is a lot of truth in these words. So, maybe you should consider...