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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 19.x - Second Edition

By : Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 19.x - Second Edition

By: Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker

Overview of this book

Containers enable you to package an application with all the components it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it as one package. Docker containers have revolutionized the software supply chain in both small and large enterprises. Starting with an introduction to Docker fundamentals and setting up an environment to work with it, you’ll delve into concepts such as Docker containers, Docker images, and Docker Compose. As you progress, the book will help you explore deployment, orchestration, networking, and security. Finally, you’ll get to grips with Docker functionalities on public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and learn about Docker Enterprise Edition features. Additionally, you’ll also discover the benefits of increased security with the use of containers. By the end of this Docker book, you’ll be able to build, ship, and run a containerized, highly distributed application on Docker Swarm or Kubernetes, running on-premises or in the cloud.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Motivation and Getting Started
4
Section 2: Containerization, from Beginner to Black Belt
11
Section 3: Orchestration Fundamentals and Docker Swarm
18
Section 4: Docker, Kubernetes, and the Cloud

The swarm routing mesh

If you have been paying attention, then you might have noticed something interesting in the last section. We had the pets application deployed and it resulted in the fact that an instance of the web service was installed on the three nodes, node-1, node-2, and node-3. Yet, we were able to access the web service on node-1 with localhost and we reached each container from there. How is that possible? Well, this is due to the so-called Swarm routing mesh. The routing mesh makes sure that when we publish a port of a service; that port is then published on all nodes of the Swarm. Hence, network traffic that hits any node of the Swarm and requests to use a specific port will be forwarded to one of the service containers by the routing mesh. Let's look at the following diagram to see how...