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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

By : Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

By: Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker

Overview of this book

Docker containers have revolutionized the software supply chain in small and big enterprises. Never before has a new technology so rapidly penetrated the top 500 enterprises worldwide. Companies that embrace containers and containerize their traditional mission-critical applications have reported savings of at least 50% in total maintenance cost and a reduction of 90% (or more) of the time required to deploy new versions of those applications. Furthermore they are benefitting from increased security just by using containers as opposed to running applications outside containers. This book starts from scratch, introducing you to Docker fundamentals and setting up an environment to work with it. Then we delve into concepts such as Docker containers, Docker images, Docker Compose, and so on. We will also cover the concepts of deployment, orchestration, networking, and security. Furthermore, we explain Docker functionalities on public clouds such as AWS. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Docker containers and orchestrators such as SwarmKit and Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Questions


To assess your understanding of the topics discussed in this chapter, please answer the following questions:

  1. Explain to an interested layman in a few simple sentences what zero downtime deployment means.
  2. How does SwarmKit achieve zero downtime deployments?
  3. Contrary to traditional (non-containerized) systems, why does a rollback in Docker Swarm just work? Explain in a few short sentences.
  4. Describe two to three characteristics of a Docker secret.
  5. You need to roll out a new version of the inventory service. What does your command look like?  Here is some more information:
    1. The new image is called acme/inventory:2.1.
    2. We want to use a rolling update strategy with a batch size of two tasks.
    3. We want the system to wait for one minute after each batch.
  1. You need to update an existing service named inventory with a new password that is provided through a Docker secret. The new secret is called MYSQL_PASSWORD_V2. The code in the service expects the secret to be called MYSQL_PASSWORD. What does the...