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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

Starting, stopping, and removing containers


You have successfully run a container in the previous section. Now we want to investigate in detail what exactly happened and why. Let's look again at the command we used:

$ docker container run alpine echo "Hello World"

This command contains multiple parts. First and foremost, we have the word docker. This is the name of the Docker command-line interface (CLI), which we are using to interact with the Docker engine that is responsible to run containers. Next, we have the word container, which indicates the context we are working with. As we want to run a container, our context is the word container. Next is the actual command we want to execute in the given context, which is run.

Let me recap—so far, we have docker container run, which means, Hey Docker, we want to run a container....

Now we also need to tell Docker which container to run. In this case, this is the so-called alpine container. Finally, we need to define what kind of process or task...