Chapter 1, Modern Infrastructures and Applications with Docker, introduces the microservices architecture and containers as the perfect match for modern infrastructures. It also covers Docker Engine concepts.
Chapter 2, Building Docker Images, presents the Docker image-building process, command-line tools, and best practices for creating good and secure images.
Chapter 3, Running Docker Containers, shows how Docker helps us to run containers in our systems and explains how these processes are isolated from Docker Engine hosts.
Chapter 4, Container Persistency and Networking, explains how to manage data out of the containers' life cycles, as well as how containers interact with internal and external resources.
Chapter 5, Deploying Multi-Container Applications, explains how we can deploy applications in which components are based on containers. We will learn how to manage an application's components with Infrastructure as Code files.
Chapter 6, Introduction to Docker Content Trust, shows how we can improve security in container-based environments, ensuring image ownership, immutability, and provenance.
Chapter 7, Introduction to Orchestration, reviews orchestration concepts before diving into Docker Swarm and Kubernetes as orchestrators.
Chapter 8, Orchestration Using Docker Swarm, covers Docker Swarm's features and implementation, explaining how to implement applications using this orchestrator.
Chapter 9, Orchestration Using Kubernetes, introduces basic Kubernetes concepts and compares this orchestrator with Docker Swarm to help you implement the best solution for different applications or infrastructures.
Chapter 10, Introduction to the Docker Enterprise Platform, introduces Docker Enterprise components and explains how Docker creates a production-ready Container as a Service platform.
Chapter 11, Universal Control Plane, explains Docker Enterprise's control plane component. We will learn how to implement Universal Control Plane in production and how to manage the Docker Enterprise platform.
Chapter 12, Publishing Applications in Docker Enterprise, reviews different methods for publishing applications and shows how to secure our Docker Swarm and Kubernetes platforms using Interlock and Ingress Controller.
Chapter 13, Implementing an Enterprise-Grade Registry with DTR, explains how Docker Enterprise provides a production-ready registry to manage and store Docker images.
Chapter 14, Summarizing Important Concepts, presents a summary of the most important concepts learned in the previous chapters. This chapter will help us to prepare for the Docker Certified Associate exam.
Chapter 15, Mock Exam Questions and Final Notes, contains some mock Docker Certified Associate exam questions and explains the basics of the exam process.