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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

Native Docker Network Drivers

Since Docker is one of the most broadly supported container platforms in recent times, the Docker platform has been vetted across numerous production-level networking scenarios. To support various types of applications, Docker provides various network drivers that enable flexibility in how containers are created and deployed. These network drivers allow containerized applications to run in almost any networking configuration that is supported directly on bare metal or virtualized servers.

For example, containers can be deployed that share the host server's networking stack, or in a configuration that allows them to be assigned unique IP addresses from the underlay network infrastructure. In this section, we are going to learn about the basic Docker network drivers and how to leverage them to provide the maximum compatibility for various types of network infrastructures:

  • bridge: A bridge is the default network that Docker will run containers...