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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

Using Docker to Supercharge Automation

In the last chapter, we introduced techniques commonly used to allow a developer to evolve, modify, debug, and test their code while running in a container. We also learned how to instrument applications so that they generate logging information that can help us to do root cause analysis of failures or misbehaviors of applications or application services that are running in production.

In this chapter, we will show how you can use tools to perform administrative tasks without having to install those tools on the host computer. We will also illustrate the use of containers that host and run test scripts or code used to test and validate application services running in containers. Finally, we will guide the reader through the task of building a simple Docker-based CI/CD pipeline.

This is a quick overview of all of the subjects...