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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)

Creating Docker volumes

There are a few ways to create a Docker volume. One way is to use the volume create command. The syntax for that command is as follows:

# Syntax for the volume create command
Usage: docker volume create [OPTIONS] [VOLUME]

In addition to the optional volume name parameter, the create command allows for these options:

# The options available to the volume create command:
-d, --driver string # Specify volume driver name (default "local")
--label list # Set metadata for a volume
-o, --opt map # Set driver specific options (default map[])

Let's start with the simplest example:

# Using the volume create command with no optional parameters
docker volume create

Executing the preceding command will create a new Docker volume and assign it a random name. The volume will be created using the built-in local driver (by...