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Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

Book Image

Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

Docker has been a game changer when it comes to how modern applications are deployed and created. It has now grown into a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, with a significant impact on the world of web development. Mastering Docker shows you how you can ensure that you're keeping up with the innovations it's driving and be sure you're using it to its full potential. This fourth edition not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively but also helps you rethink and reimagine what you can achieve with it. You'll start by building, managing, and storing images along with exploring best practices for working with Docker confidently. Once you've got to grips with Docker security, the book covers essential concepts for extending and integrating Docker in new and innovative ways. You'll also learn how to take control of your containers efficiently using Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. By the end of this Docker book, you’ll have a broad yet detailed sense of what's possible with Docker and how seamlessly it fits in with a range of other platforms and tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Docker
8
Section 2: Clusters and Clouds
16
Section 3: Best Practices

Google Cloud

Of the three major public clouds, Google Cloud is the newest. It started life as Google App Engine in 2008. App Engine was Google's PaaS offering, which supported Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, C#, .Net, Ruby, and Go applications. Unlike AWS and Microsoft Azure, Google remained a PaaS service for over 4 years until it introduced Google Compute Engine.

We are going to be learning a lot more about Google's journey into the cloud in the next chapter when we start to talk about Kubernetes, so I am not going to go into much more detail here. So, let's jump right in.

Google Cloud Run

Google Cloud Run works slightly differently than the other container services we have looked at in this chapter. The first thing we need is to have an image hosted in Google Container Registry to use the service:

  1. Let's grab a copy of our cluster image from Docker Hub:
    $ docker image pull russmckendrick/cluster
  2. Now, we need to use the Google Cloud command-line...