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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

Working with Docker Swarm

The previous section of this chapter has shown you that Swarm uses similar concepts to what you have already learned so far in this book. You'll see that the use of Swarm takes the Docker commands you are so familiar with and expands them to allow you to create your clusters, manage services, and configure your nodes. Docker Swarm takes a lot of the hard work out of running your services, as Swarm will work out where it is best to place your services, take care of scheduling your containers, and decide which node it is best to place it on. For example, if there are already three services running on one node and only one service on your second node, Swarm will know that it should distribute the services evenly across your system.

By default, Docker Swarm is disabled, so to run Docker in swarm mode, you will need to either join an existing cluster or create a new swarm. To create a new swarm and activate it in your system, you use the swarm init command...