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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

Docker Quick Start Guide

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source software platform that helps you with creating, deploying, and running your applications using containers. This book is your ideal introduction to Docker and containerization. You will learn how to set up a Docker development environment on a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation, and learn your way around all the commands to run and manage your Docker images and containers. You will explore the Dockerfile and learn how to build your own enterprise-grade Docker images. Then you will learn about Docker networks, Docker swarm, and Docker volumes, and how to use these features with Docker stacks in order to define, deploy, and maintain highly-scalable, fault-tolerant multi-container applications. Finally, you will learn how to leverage Docker with Jenkins to automate the building of Docker images and the deployment of Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be well prepared when it comes to using Docker for your next project.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

How do you feel about Docker networking now? Docker has taken a complex technology, networking, and made it easy to understand and use. Most of the crazy, difficult setup stuff is literally handled with a single swarm init command. Let's review: you learned about the network design that Docker created, called the container network model, or CNM. Then, you learned how the libnetwork project turned that model into a pluggable architecture. After that, you found out that Docker created a powerful set of drivers to plug into the libnetwork architecture to enable a variety of network options for most of your container communication needs. Since the architecture is so pluggable, others have created even more network drivers that solve any edge cases that the Docker drivers don't handle. Docker networking has really come into its own.

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