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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we took a deep-dive into Docker volumes. We learned what Docker volumes actually are, along with a few ways to create them. We learned the differences between creating Docker volumes with the volume create command, with the container run command, and the Dockerfile VOLUME instruction. We looked at a couple of ways to remove volumes, and how to use a data container to share volumes with other containers. All in all, you should feel pretty confident in your Docker volume skills right now. So far, we have built a strong base of Docker knowledge.

In Chapter 5, Docker Swarm, we are going to add to that base by learning about Docker Swarm. This is where things will really start to get exciting. If you are ready to learn more, turn the page!