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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

Chapter 14. Running a Containerized App in the Cloud

In the previous chapter, we learned how to deploy a multi-service application into a Kubernetes cluster. We configured application-level routing for this application and updated its services using a zero-downtime strategy. Finally, we provided confidential data to the running services by using Kubernetes secrets.

In this chapter, we will give an overview of some of the most popular ways of running containerized applications in the cloud. We will have a closer look at what the most popular cloud vendor, AWS, offers in this regard. We will include self-hosting and hosted solutions and discuss their pros and cons. Offerings of other vendors, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Engine (GCE), will also be briefly discussed.

Here are the topics we will be discussing in this chapter:

  • Deploying our application into AWS ECS
  • Deploying and using Docker EE on AWS
  • A short peek into Azure’s container offerings
  • A short peek into Google’s container offerings...