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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

By : Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

By: Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker

Overview of this book

Docker containers have revolutionized the software supply chain in small and big enterprises. Never before has a new technology so rapidly penetrated the top 500 enterprises worldwide. Companies that embrace containers and containerize their traditional mission-critical applications have reported savings of at least 50% in total maintenance cost and a reduction of 90% (or more) of the time required to deploy new versions of those applications. Furthermore they are benefitting from increased security just by using containers as opposed to running applications outside containers. This book starts from scratch, introducing you to Docker fundamentals and setting up an environment to work with it. Then we delve into concepts such as Docker containers, Docker images, Docker Compose, and so on. We will also cover the concepts of deployment, orchestration, networking, and security. Furthermore, we explain Docker functionalities on public clouds such as AWS. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Docker containers and orchestrators such as SwarmKit and Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

The null network


Sometimes, we need to run a few application services or jobs that do not need any network connection at all to execute the task. It is strongly advised that you run those applications in a container that is attached to the none network. This container will be completely isolated, and thus safe from any outside access. Let's run such a container:

$ docker container run --rm -it --network none alpine:latest /bin/sh

Once inside the container, we can verify that there is no eth0 network endpoint available:

/ # ip addr show eth0
ip: can't find device 'eth0'

There is also no routing information available, as we can demonstrate by using the following command:

/ # ip route

This returns nothing.