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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)

Built-in (local) Docker networks

The out-of-the-box install of Docker includes a few built-in network drivers. These are also known as local drivers. The two most commonly used drivers are the bridge network driver and the overlay network driver. Other built-in drivers include none, host, and MACVLAN. Also, without your creating networks, your fresh install will have a few networks pre-created and ready to use. Using the network ls command, we can easily see the list of pre-created networks available in the fresh installation:

In this list, you will notice that each network has its unique ID, a name, a driver used to create it (and that controls it), and a network scope. Don't confuse a scope of local with the category of driver, which is also local. The local category is used to differentiate the driver's origin from third-party drivers that have a category of remote...