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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 (3)
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 to Multi-Stage Dockerfiles

Multi-stage Dockerfiles are a feature that allows for a single Dockerfile to contain multiple stages that can produce optimized Docker images. As we observed with the builder pattern in the previous section, the stages will usually include a builder state to build the executables from source code, and a runtime stage to run the executables. Multi-stage Dockerfiles will use multiple FROM directives within the Dockerfile for each stage, and each stage will start with a different base image. Only the essential files will be copied selectively from one stage to the other. Before multi-stage Dockerfiles, this was achieved with the builder pattern, as we discussed in the previous section.

Multi-stage Docker builds allow us to create minimal-sized Docker images that are similar to the builder pattern but eliminate the problems associated with it. As we have seen in the previous example, the builder pattern needs to maintain two Dockerfiles and a...