Book Image

The Docker Workshop

By : Vincent Sesto, Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra, Aric Renzo, Engy Fouda
5 (1)
Book Image

The Docker Workshop

5 (1)
By: Vincent Sesto, Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra, Aric Renzo, Engy Fouda

Overview of this book

No doubt Docker Containers are the future of highly-scalable software systems and have cost and runtime efficient supporting infrastructure. But learning it might look complex as it comes with many technicalities. This is where The Docker Workshop will help you. Through this workshop, you’ll quickly learn how to work with containers and Docker with the help of practical activities.? The workshop starts with Docker containers, enabling you to understand how it works. You’ll run third party Docker images and also create your own images using Dockerfiles and multi-stage Dockerfiles. Next, you’ll create environments for Docker images, and expedite your deployment and testing process with Continuous Integration. Moving ahead, you’ll tap into interesting topics and learn how to implement production-ready environments using Docker Swarm. You’ll also apply best practices to secure Docker images and to ensure that production environments are running at maximum capacity. Towards the end, you’ll gather skills to successfully move Docker from development to testing, and then into production. While doing so, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot issues, clear up resource bottlenecks and optimize the performance of services. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to utilize Docker containers in real-world use cases.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface

Introduction

In recent years, technological innovations across all industries are rapidly increasing the rate at which software products are delivered. Due to trends in technology, such as agile development (a methodology for quickly writing software) and continuous integration pipelines, which enable the rapid delivery of software, operations' staff have recently struggled to build infrastructure quickly enough to quell the increasing demand. In order to keep up, many organizations have opted to migrate to cloud infrastructure.

Cloud infrastructure provides hosted virtualization, network, and storage solutions that can be leveraged on a pay-as-you-go model. These providers allow any organization or individual to sign up and receive access to infrastructure that would traditionally require large amounts of space and expensive hardware to implement on-site or in a data center. Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform provide easy-to-use APIs that...