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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

Summary

In this final chapter of our Getting Started section, we kicked off our Docker Enterprise journey in earnest by building our own environment, where we can run a containerized PoC application. The goal is to be able to demonstrate how Docker Enterprise will run in your environment and what it looks like running one of your own applications.

First, we prepared the environment for the PoC. We started with some PoC nodes on a common network. Then, we prepared each node by installing the Docker Engine, as well as the Docker Enterprise components, consisting of the Universal Control Plane and the DTR. Then, with the PoC environment ready to go, we turned our focus to selecting and containerizing a PoC application.

Selecting a proof-of-concept application can be a little bit tricky. We want to find one that can be containerized without any code refactoring, and at the same...