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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)

Building, testing, and pushing Docker images inside Dockerized build nodes

To wrap up this chapter on Docker and Jenkins, let's walk through the steps of creating a template for a real-world Dockerized node application. The following is what we will do:

Prepare our application:

  • Create a new repo on GitHub
  • Clone the repo to our development workstation
  • Create our application files
  • Push our application files up to GitHub

Create and test the Jenkins job that will build our Dockerized node application:

  • Create a new Jenkins job that utilizes the GitHub repo
  • Test our Jenkins job that will pull the repo, build the app, test it, and publish the image
  • Celebrate our success!

Let's begin by preparing our application.

The first thing we want to do is create our application repo on GitHub. Browse and log into github.com, go to your repositories page, and click on the Create...