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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

6. Introduction to Docker Networking

Activity 6.01: Leveraging Docker Network Drivers

Solution:

The following is the most common way to complete this activity according to best practices:

  1. Use the docker network create command to create a network for the NGINX web server. Call it webservernet and give it a subnet of 192.168.1.0/24 and a gateway of 192.168.1.1:
    $ docker network create webservernet --subnet=192.168.1.0/24 --gateway=192.168.1.1

    This should create the bridge network, webservernet.

  2. Use the docker run command to create an NGINX web server. Use the -p flag to forward port 8080 on the host to port 80 on the container instance:
    $ docker run -itd -p 8080:80 --name webserver1 --network webservernet nginx:latest

    This will start the webserver1 container in the webservernet network.

  3. Use the docker run command to start an Alpine Linux container named monitor in host networking mode. This way, you will know that the container has access to the host ports...