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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 learning progress, please answer the following questions:

  1. You have an application consisting of two services, the first one being a web API and the second one a DB, such as Mongo. You want to deploy this application into a Kubernetes cluster. In a few short sentences, explain how you proceed.
  2. Describe in your own words in a few sentences the components you need to establish layer 7 (or application level) routing for your application. 
  3. List the main steps needed to implement blue–green deployment for a simple application service. Avoid going into too much detail.
  4. Name three or four types of information that you would provide to an application service through Kubernetes secrets.
  5. Name the sources that Kubernetes accepts when creating a secret.