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Mastering Docker Enterprise

By : Mark Panthofer
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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)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Docker Enterprise
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Section 2: Piloting Docker Enterprise
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Section 3: In Production with Docker Enterprise

Making the Case for Docker Enterprise

If you have been around the technology scene for a while, you have probably figured out that guiding principles are key to achieving long-term success and without them you end up running in circlesalways bouncing to the next cool tech fad without actually getting anything done.

Furthermore, these same guiding principles inspire enterprise practices as a means to ensure the principles are achieved. Finally, principles and practices combine to inform our choice and style for the tools used to make it all happen. Therefore, before we jump into the details of using Docker's Enterprise tooling, it is important to understand how we got here, what running Docker means, and where Docker's enterprise tooling fits into the enterprise platform space.

The following are globally some sample principles and practices to help guide...