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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

Deploying Kubernetes using Minikube

First in our list of alternative Kubernetes cluster installers is Minikube. It was initially released in May 2016, making it the oldest of the tools we will be discussing in this chapter.

Before we look at installing Minikube, we should probably discuss why it was needed in the first place.

At the time of its original release, Kubernetes 1.2 had been out for a few months, and it was almost a year after the 1.0 release of Kubernetes.

While installing Kubernetes had become a lot simpler since the original release, it typically still boiled down to a bunch of installation scripts and step-by-step instructions that were designed to mostly bootstrap cloud-hosted clusters utilizing the cloud provider's APIs or command-line tools.

If you wanted to run an installation locally for development purposes, then you would have to either hack together your installer from existing scripts or download a Vagrant box where you would be trusting the...