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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


Please try to answer the following questions to assess your learning progress:

  1. How will you create a Dockerfile that inherits from Ubuntu version 17.04, and that installs ping and runs ping when a container starts. The default address to ping will be 127.0.0.1.
  2. How will you create a new container image that uses alpine:latest and installs curl. Name the new image my-alpine:1.0.
  3. Create a Dockerfile that uses multiple steps to create an image  of a Hello World app of minimal size, written in C or Go.
  4. Name three essential characteristics of a Docker container image.
  5. You want to push an image named foo:1.0 to your jdoe personal account on Docker Hub. Which of the following is the right solution?
    1. $ docker container push foo:1.0
    2. $ docker image tag foo:1.0 jdoe/foo:1.0$ docker image push jdoe/foo:1.0
    3. $ docker login -u jdoe -p <your password>$ docker image tag foo:1.0 jdoe/foo:1.0$ docker image push jdoe/foo:1.0
    4. $ docker login -u jdoe -p <your password>$ docker container tag foo:1...