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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

Docker Quick Start Guide

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source software platform that helps you with creating, deploying, and running your applications using containers. This book is your ideal introduction to Docker and containerization. You will learn how to set up a Docker development environment on a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation, and learn your way around all the commands to run and manage your Docker images and containers. You will explore the Dockerfile and learn how to build your own enterprise-grade Docker images. Then you will learn about Docker networks, Docker swarm, and Docker volumes, and how to use these features with Docker stacks in order to define, deploy, and maintain highly-scalable, fault-tolerant multi-container applications. Finally, you will learn how to leverage Docker with Jenkins to automate the building of Docker images and the deployment of Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be well prepared when it comes to using Docker for your next project.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Docker image descriptions and a little about Docker registries. Then we saw that there is another form of the version command. After that, we explored a lot of Docker container commands, including run, stop, ls, logs, top, stats, attach, exec, and the commit command. Finally, we found out how to expose your containers by opening ports from your host and to your containers. You should feel pretty good about what you can do with Docker already, but hang on—in Chapter 3, Creating Docker Images, we are going to show you how to create your own Docker images with a Dockerfile and the image build command. If you're ready, turn the page.

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