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Deployment with Docker

By : Srdjan Grubor
Book Image

Deployment with Docker

By: Srdjan Grubor

Overview of this book

Deploying Docker into production is considered to be one of the major pain points in developing large-scale infrastructures, and the documentation available online leaves a lot to be desired. With this book, you will learn everything you wanted to know to effectively scale your deployments globally and build a resilient, scalable, and containerized cloud platform for your own use. The book starts by introducing you to the containerization ecosystem with some concrete and easy-to-digest examples; after that, you will delve into examples of launching multiple instances of the same container. From there, you will cover orchestration, multi-node setups, volumes, and almost every relevant component of this new approach to deploying services. Using intertwined approaches, the book will cover battle-tested tooling, or issues likely to be encountered in real-world scenarios, in detail. You will also learn about the other supporting components required for a true PaaS deployment and discover common options to tie the whole infrastructure together. At the end of the book, you learn to build a small, but functional, PaaS (to appreciate the power of the containerized service approach) and continue to explore real-world approaches to implementing even larger global-scale services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

A container more practical


This is probably where we start diverging from other Docker materials out there that practically assume that with just this basic knowledge, the rest of the work is a cakewalk when it is really nothing like that. It is not rocket science, but these simple examples really do not do enough to get us where we need to be, so we will use a practical example based a bit on our previous work with NGINX and create a container that uses this web server image to provide and serve up content that we will bake into the image.

Note

This example and all the other ones in this book are also available on GitHub at https://github.com/sgnn7/deploying_with_docker. You can use either git or their web interface to follow along with the examples, but all examples of code that we will use will be directly included in the book too.

To begin creating our web server, we need to create a directory to put all of our files in:

$ mkdir ~/advanced_nginx
$ cd ~/advanced_nginx

The first file we need...