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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

Now you know a lot about Docker stacks. You can easily create application definitions with a compose file and then deploy those applications using the stack deploy command. You can explore the details of your deployed stacks with the ls, ps, and services commands. You can scale your applications with easy modifications to your compose file and by executing the same command used to deploy your app. Finally, you can remove an application that has reached the end of its life with the stack rm command. With great power comes great responsibility, so be very careful with that remove command. You have enough information to create and orchestrate world-class enterprise-grade applications now, so get busy! However, if you would like to learn how to use Docker with Jenkins, you'll be pleased to know that that's the topic of Chapter 8, Docker and Jenkins, so turn the page...