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Docker for Developers

By : Richard Bullington-McGuire, Andrew K. Dennis, Michael Schwartz
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Book Image

Docker for Developers

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By: Richard Bullington-McGuire, Andrew K. Dennis, Michael Schwartz

Overview of this book

Docker is the de facto standard for containerizing apps, and with an increasing number of software projects migrating to containers, it is crucial for engineers and DevOps teams to understand how to build, deploy, and secure Docker environments effectively. Docker for Developers will help you understand Docker containers from scratch while taking you through best practices and showing you how to address security concerns. Starting with an introduction to Docker, you’ll learn how to use containers and VirtualBox for development. You’ll explore how containers work and develop projects within them after you’ve explored different ways to deploy and run containers. The book will also show you how to use Docker containers in production in both single-host set-ups and in clusters and deploy them using Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Spinnaker. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with monitoring, securing, and scaling Docker using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Later, you’ll be able to deploy Docker containers to a variety of environments, including the cloud-native Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), before finally delving into Docker security concepts and best practices. By the end of the Docker book, you’ll be able to not only work in a container-driven environment confidently but also use Docker for both new and existing projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: An Introduction to Docker – Containers and Local Development
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Section 2: Running Docker in Production
14
Section 3: Docker Security – Securing Your Containers

Securing your containers using AWS

There are a number of approaches we can take to securing containers in the cloud. We will start by looking at Amazon Web Services, commonly known as AWS. This section of the book assumes you are already familiar with working in AWS for hosting container-based projects. If you use a different service, such as Azure or GCP, then please feel free to skip ahead to the Azure container security and Google container security options sections respectively. The topic of AWS and container hosting is also discussed in Chapter 5, Alternatives for Deploying and Running Containers in Production, and Chapter 8, Deploying Docker Apps to Kubernetes. Let's take a look at the tools used for monitoring in AWS.

Security alerts for AWS with GuardDuty

A number of tools exist either in AWS or as third-party plugins that can be used to monitor your Amazon environment hosting your container infrastructure.

Amazon's major tool for monitoring security issues...