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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

Prepare the Docker Enterprise Pilot Cluster

As we enter the pilot phase of our Enterprise container adoption, we begin with a clean slate. Informed by our experience from the proof of concept, we will begin to make some long-term design decisions regarding our Docker Enterprise platform. The goal here is to have a platform ready for internal pilot deployments. Not all of the rigging is necessary for a full-blown production application, but more of an internal development platform that is ready to support multiple in-house application development teams.

In this chapter, we will get started with the pilot phase and walk through the design, configuration, and build of a Docker Enterprise pilot cluster. Before we are ready to make any design decisions regarding the pilot platform, however, we will need to review some important Docker concepts related to networking. Additionally...