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Docker High Performance - Second Edition

By : Espinosa, Russ McKendrick
Book Image

Docker High Performance - Second Edition

By: Espinosa, Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Docker is an enterprise-grade container platform that allows you to build and deploy your apps. Its portable format lets you run your code right from your desktop workstations to popular cloud computing providers. This comprehensive guide will improve your Docker work?ows and ensure your application's production environment runs smoothly. This book starts with a refresher on setting up and running Docker and details the basic setup for creating a Docker Swarm cluster. You will then learn how to automate this cluster by using the Chef server and cookbooks. After that, you will run the Docker monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana, and deploy the ELK stack. You will also learn best practices for optimizing Docker images. After deploying containers with the help of Jenkins, you will then move on to a tutorial on using Apache JMeter to analyze your application's performance. You will learn how to use Docker Swarm and NGINX to load-balance your application, and how common debugging tools in Linux can be used to troubleshoot Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be able to integrate all the optimizations that you have learned and put everything into practice in your applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

To get the most out of this book

  1. A Linux workstation with a recent kernel is needed to serve as a host for Docker CE 18.09.0. This book uses CentOS 7 as its base operating system to install and
    set up Docker.
  2. More details on how to get Docker up and running is covered in Chapter 1, Preparing Docker Hosts.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "First, we will create a directory for our PKI and generate the CA's private key in a file called ca-key.pem."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
"tlsverify": true,
"tlscacert": "/etc/docker/ca.pem",
"tlskey": "/etc/docker/server-key.pem",
"tlscert": "/etc/docker/server.pem"
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

dockerhost$ systemctl daemon-reload
dockerhost$ systemctl restart docker.service

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: " In the form field labeled Name, set the value to Unicorn Capacity."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.