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Mastering Docker Enterprise

By : Mark Panthofer
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Mastering Docker Enterprise

By: Mark Panthofer

Overview of this book

While known mostly as the open source engine behind tens of millions of server nodes, Docker also offers commercially supported enterprise tooling known as the Docker Enterprise. This platform leverages the deep roots from Docker Engine - Community (formerly Docker CE) and Kubernetes, but adds support and tooling to efficiently operate a secure container platform at scale. With hundreds of enterprises on board, best practices and adoption patterns are emerging rapidly. These learning points can be used to inform adopters and help manage the enterprise transformation associated with enterprise container adoption. This book starts by explaining the case for Docker Enterprise, as well as its structure and reference architecture. From there, we progress through the PoC,pilot and production stages as a working model for adoption, evolving the platform’s design and configuration for each stage and using detailed application examples along the way to clarify and demonstrate important concepts.The book concludes with Docker’s impact on other emerging software technologies, such as Blockchain and Serverless computing. By the end of this book, you’ll have a better understanding of what it takes to get your enterprise up and running with Docker Enterprise and beyond.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Getting Started with Docker Enterprise
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Section 2: Piloting Docker Enterprise
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Section 3: In Production with Docker Enterprise

Getting Started - Docker Enterprise Proof of Concept

This chapter represents a critical first step in your journey toward the adoption of Docker Enterprise. We talked about the importance of a crawl, walk, run approach through agile adoption. So many times, in an effort to be the most efficient, we want to jump right to the answer. Subsequently, many organizations race right past the crawl and walk stages to start running (somewhere). The problem is, by skipping our crawl stage, where a Proof of Concept (PoC) project is used to introduce and demonstrate the Docker Enterprise platform, they miss out on discovering their own informed opinion during the PoC. Essentially, the PoC phase is a critical part of the enterprises learning experience. So start with a PoC allow the team to try things, make some mistakes and learn freely.

Here, we present the PoC phase of our agile...