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The Docker Workshop

By : Vincent Sesto, Onur Yılmaz, Sathsara Sarathchandra, Aric Renzo, Engy Fouda
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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

Using Container Security Profiles

Security profiles allow you to leverage existing security tools in Linux and implement them across your Docker images. In the following sections, we will cover both AppArmor and seccomp. These are the ways by which you can reduce the amount of access that processes can gain when running on your Docker environments. They are both simple to use and you'll find you will most likely be using them already in your images. We will look at both of them separately but note that AppArmor and Security Computing for Linux do overlap with their functionality. For the time being, all you need to remember is that AppArmor stops applications from accessing files that they shouldn't be accessing, while Security Computing for Linux will help stop any Linux kernel vulnerabilities from being exploited.

By default, and especially if you have an up-to-date version of Docker running, you may already have both running. You can verify this by running the docker...