Book Image

Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare
2 (1)
Book Image

Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

2 (1)
By: Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source tool used for creating, deploying, and running applications using containers. With more than 100 self-contained tutorials, this book examines common pain points and best practices for developers building distributed applications with Docker. Each recipe in this book addresses a specific problem and offers a proven, best practice solution with insights into how it works, so that you can modify the code and configuration files to suit your needs. The Docker Cookbook begins by guiding you in setting up Docker in different environments and explains how to work with its containers and images. You’ll understand Docker orchestration, networking, security, and hosting platforms for effective collaboration and efficient deployment. The book also covers tips and tricks and new Docker features that support a range of other cloud offerings. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to package and deploy end-to-end distributed applications with Docker and be well-versed with best practice solutions for common development problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Accessing containers from outside

In the microservice architecture, multiple smaller services are used to provide a meaningful enterprise-grade application. The Docker-inspired containerization technology is inherently very lightweight, and hence it plays a vital role in enabling the microservice architecture. By default, the Docker container allows outgoing data traffic, but there is no path for the external world to connect to the services running inside the container. Nonetheless, Docker provides an elegant solution to selectively enable the external world to communicate with the service running inside the container, using the following options of the docker container run command:

--publish, -p

Publish a container's port to the host

--publish-all, -P

Publish all exposed ports to random ports

Both these options allow the external world to connect to the...