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Extending Docker

By : Russ McKendrick
Book Image

Extending Docker

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

With Docker, it is possible to get a lot of apps running on the same old servers, making it very easy to package and ship programs. The ability to extend Docker using plugins and load third-party plugins is incredible, and organizations can massively benefit from it. In this book, you will read about what first and third party tools are available to extend the functionality of your existing Docker installation and how to approach your next Docker infrastructure deployment. We will show you how to work with Docker plugins, install it, and cover its lifecycle. We also cover network and volume plugins, and you will find out how to build your own plugin. You’ll discover how to integrate it with Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, Flocker, Rancher, Packer, and more with third-party plugins. Then, you’ll see how to use Schedulers such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS. Finally, we’ll delve into security, troubleshooting, and best practices when extending Docker. By the end of this book, you will learn how to extend Docker and customize it based on your business requirements with the help of various tools and plugins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Puppetize all the things


Long before the following Containerize all the things meme regularly started to pop up in people's presentations:

People were saying the same thing about Puppet. So, what is Puppet and why would you want to use it on all things?

Puppet Labs, the makers of Puppet, describe Puppet as:

"With Puppet, you define the state of your IT infrastructure, and Puppet automatically enforces the desired state. Puppet automates every step of the software delivery process, from provisioning of physical and virtual machines to orchestration and reporting; from early-stage code development through testing, production release and updates."

Before tools such as Puppet, working as a sysadmin could sometimes be quite a tedious process: if you weren't looking into problems, you were writing your own scripts to bootstrap servers once they had been built, or even worse, you were copying and pasting commands from an internal wiki to install your software stack and configure it.

Servers would very...