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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

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

Well, here we are, at the end of the chapter. I hope you had as much fun reading this chapter as I had writing it. We had the opportunity to use many of the skills that we learned in the previous chapters. Not only that, there are some really useful Jenkins lessons in this chapter as well. So much so that you could seriously consider skipping any planned Jenkins training or book-reading because pretty much everything you need to know about using Jenkins is right here.

Let's recap: first, we learned how to set up a standalone Jenkins server. We quickly transitioned into deploying a Jenkins server as a Docker container. That's the kind of thing you're reading this book for, right? Then we learned how to build a Docker image in a Dockerized Jenkins server. Next, we found out how to replace the boring Jenkins agents with super-cool Docker containers that can...