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Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

Docker has been a game changer when it comes to how modern applications are deployed and created. It has now grown into a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, with a significant impact on the world of web development. Mastering Docker shows you how you can ensure that you're keeping up with the innovations it's driving and be sure you're using it to its full potential. This fourth edition not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively but also helps you rethink and reimagine what you can achieve with it. You'll start by building, managing, and storing images along with exploring best practices for working with Docker confidently. Once you've got to grips with Docker security, the book covers essential concepts for extending and integrating Docker in new and innovative ways. You'll also learn how to take control of your containers efficiently using Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. By the end of this Docker book, you’ll have a broad yet detailed sense of what's possible with Docker and how seamlessly it fits in with a range of other platforms and tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Docker
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Section 2: Clusters and Clouds
16
Section 3: Best Practices

Amazon Web Services

The first of the public cloud providers we are going to be looking at in this chapter is AWS. It was first launched in July 2002 as an internal service used within Amazon to provide a few disparate services to support the Amazon retail site. A year or so later, an internal presentation at Amazon laid the groundwork for what AWS was to become: a standardized and completely automated compute infrastructure to support Amazon's vision of a web-based retail platform.

At the end of the presentation, it was mentioned that Amazon could possibly sell access to some of the services AWS had to offer to help fund the infrastructure investment required to get the platform off the ground. In late 2004, the first of these public services was launched – Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), a distributed message queuing service. Around this time, Amazon started work on services that it could consume for the retail site and services it could sell to the public...