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The Docker Workshop

By : Vincent Sesto, Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra, Aric Renzo, Engy Fouda
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Book Image

The Docker Workshop

5 (1)
By: Vincent Sesto, Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra, Aric Renzo, Engy Fouda

Overview of this book

No doubt Docker Containers are the future of highly-scalable software systems and have cost and runtime efficient supporting infrastructure. But learning it might look complex as it comes with many technicalities. This is where The Docker Workshop will help you. Through this workshop, you’ll quickly learn how to work with containers and Docker with the help of practical activities.? The workshop starts with Docker containers, enabling you to understand how it works. You’ll run third party Docker images and also create your own images using Dockerfiles and multi-stage Dockerfiles. Next, you’ll create environments for Docker images, and expedite your deployment and testing process with Continuous Integration. Moving ahead, you’ll tap into interesting topics and learn how to implement production-ready environments using Docker Swarm. You’ll also apply best practices to secure Docker images and to ensure that production environments are running at maximum capacity. Towards the end, you’ll gather skills to successfully move Docker from development to testing, and then into production. While doing so, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot issues, clear up resource bottlenecks and optimize the performance of services. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to utilize Docker containers in real-world use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface

Introduction

In previous chapters, you ran multiple Docker containers with Docker Compose and Docker Swarm. In addition, you monitored the metrics from containers and collected the logs. Docker allows you to manage the complete life cycle of containers, including networking, volumes, and process isolations. If you want to customize the operations of Docker to work with your custom storage, network provider, or authentication server, you need to extend the capabilities of Docker.

For instance, if you have a custom cloud-based storage system and you want to mount it to your Docker containers, you can implement a storage plugin. Similarly, you can authenticate your users from your enterprise user management system using authorization plugins and allow them to work with Docker containers.

In this chapter, you will learn how to extend Docker with its plugins. You will start with plugin management and APIs, followed by the most advanced and requested plugin types: authorization,...