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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
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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)

Docker Networking

In this chapter, we will learn about Docker networking. We will dive deep into Docker networking, learning how containers can be isolated, how they can communicate with each other, and how they can communicate with the outside world. We will explore the local network drivers Docker provides in the out-of-the-box installation. Then, we will examine the use of remote network drivers with an example deployment of the Weave driver. After that, we will learn how to create Docker networks. We will round out the discussion with a look at the free services that we get with our Docker networks.

"Approximately 97% of all shipping containers are manufactured in China. It is far easier to produce the container close to the shipment than to re-position containers around the world."
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