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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

We started out with basic Docker Engine logs where we provided a recommended default configuration for your Docker Engine's etc/docker/daemon.json file. Otherwise, you would need to roll/truncate the log files on your own. If you fail to do so, the logs can consume the entire host filesystem and cause the system to lock up. We talked about centralized logging and how important it is in the cluster-based environment, and especially with distributed systems.

We covered two open source approaches to central logging and monitoring, as well as sharing the UCP's role in monitoring and logs. We discussed the ELK Stack as a powerful central logging solution. Then, we spent some time covering monitoring with Prometheus. Finally, we talked about a commercial solution as a means to monitor our wiki pilot application.

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