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Learning Docker - Second Edition

By : Vinod Singh, Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai
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Learning Docker - Second Edition

By: Vinod Singh, Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source containerization engine that offers a simple and faster way for developing and running software. Docker containers wrap software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run, enabling any application to be run anywhere – this flexibily and portabily means that you can run apps in the cloud, on virtual machines, or on dedicated servers. This book will give you a tour of the new features of Docker and help you get started with Docker by building and deploying a simple application. It will walk you through the commands required to manage Docker images and containers. You’ll be shown how to download new images, run containers, list the containers running on the Docker host, and kill them. You’ll learn how to leverage Docker’s volumes feature to share data between the Docker host and its containers – this data management feature is also useful for persistent data. This book also covers how to orchestrate containers using Docker compose, debug containers, and secure containers using the AppArmor and SELinux security modules.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

Building Docker images is a crucial aspect of the Docker technology for streamlining the arduous journey of containerization. As indicated before, the Docker initiative has turned out to be disruptive and transformative for the containerization paradigm, which has been present for a while now. Dockerfile is the most prominent one for producing competent Docker images, which can be meticulously used across. We have illustrated all the commands, their syntax, and their usage techniques in order to empower you with all the easy-to-grasp details, and this will simplify the image-building process for you. We have supplied a bevy of examples in order to substantiate the inner meaning of each command. In the next chapter, we are going to discuss the Docker Hub, which is a well-designated store for storing and sharing the Docker images, and we will also discuss its profound contributions towards the penetration...