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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

Docker Hub


We will be covering Docker Hub in a little more detail than what we looked at in the previous chapter. In Chapter 2, Up and Running, we just glazed over Docker Hub as a storage location to push our images to. In this section, we will focus on that Docker Hub, which is a free public option, but also has a private option that you can use to secure your images. We will focus on the web aspect of Docker Hub and the management you can do there.

The login page is like the one shown in the following screenshot:

Dashboard

After logging into the Docker Hub, you will be taken to the following landing page. This page is known as the Dashboard of Docker Hub.

From here, you can get to all the other subpages of Docker Hub. In the upcoming sections, we will go through everything you see on the dashboard, starting with the dark blue bar you have on the top.

Explore the repositories page

The following is the screenshot of the Explore link you see next to Dashboard at the top of the screen:

As you can...