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Mastering Docker

By : Scott Gallagher
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Mastering Docker

By: Scott Gallagher

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Docker has been a game-changer when it comes to virtualization – it has now grown to become a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, having an impact on the world of web development and more. But how can you make sure you’re keeping up with the innovations that it’s driving? How can you be sure you’re using it to its full potential? Mastering Docker shows you how – it not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively, it also helps you rethink and reimagine what’s possible with Docker.</span></p> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"> Covering best practices to make sure you’re confident with and the basics, such as building, managing and storing containers, before diving deeper into Docker security, you’ll find everything you need to help you extend and integrate Docker in new and innovative ways. You’ll learn how to take greater control over your containers using some of Docker’s most sophisticated and useful tools, such as Docker compose and Docker swarm, before bringing together everything you already know and have learned to put your containers into production and monitor them for safety and performance.</span></span></p> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"> Beyond this, you’ll also explore even more advanced strategies, as you learn how to extend and integrate Docker with cloud platforms such as Heroku and OpenStack, and how tools such as Kubernetes can improve the way you manage large-scale container orchestration. With further guidance on how you can use configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef and PowerShell, by the end of the book you’ll have a broad and detailed sense of exactly what’s possible with Docker – and how seamlessly it fits with a range of other platforms and tools.</span></span></span></p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Docker
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Various Docker APIs


Some of the various Docker APIs can immensely help you when you are writing up a script in the coding language of your choice. You can tie that into pulling the strings on Docker and have it to do the work for you without having to break out into another program or scripting language.

docker.io accounts API

This API is used just for account management. With it, you can:

  • Get a single user

  • Update various parameters for a particular user

  • List e-mail addresses for a user

  • Add an e-mail address for a user

  • Delete an e-mail address for a user

There is not a lot that you can do with this API as it is mainly focused around what you can do with one's user account. In reality, there isn't a lot of information baked into one's user account, and as you can see, the e-mail address is the main focal point of one's account.

For more information, please visit https://docs.docker.com/reference/api/docker_io_accounts_api/.

Remote API

Let's just start off by saying that the Remote API is very intense...