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Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

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

Building images using APIs

In the previous recipe, we explored a few actions on Docker images using APIs. In this recipe, we will build a Docker image using the /build API. Here is the /build API snippet from Swagger Editor:

How to do it...

  1. Begin by cloning the https://github.com/docker-cookbook/apache2 repository, as follows:
    $ git clone https://github.com/docker-cookbook/apache2  

This repository contains the Dockerfile to bundle an apache2 service; listed here is the content of the Dockerfile:

  1. Let's create the build context by bundling the content of the cloned apache2 repository as a tar file, as demonstrated here:
        $ cd apache2
        $ tar cvf /tmp/apache2.tar *  
  1. Continue on to build the Docker...