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Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare
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Book Image

Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

2 (1)
By: Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source tool used for creating, deploying, and running applications using containers. With more than 100 self-contained tutorials, this book examines common pain points and best practices for developers building distributed applications with Docker. Each recipe in this book addresses a specific problem and offers a proven, best practice solution with insights into how it works, so that you can modify the code and configuration files to suit your needs. The Docker Cookbook begins by guiding you in setting up Docker in different environments and explains how to work with its containers and images. You’ll understand Docker orchestration, networking, security, and hosting platforms for effective collaboration and efficient deployment. The book also covers tips and tricks and new Docker features that support a range of other cloud offerings. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to package and deploy end-to-end distributed applications with Docker and be well-versed with best practice solutions for common development problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Labeling and filtering containers

With Docker 1.6, a feature has been added so that we can label containers and images through which we can attach arbitrary key-value pairs as metadata. You can think of them as environment variables, that are not available for applications running inside containers, but they are available to Docker clients that manage the images and containers. Labels attached to images also get applied to containers that are started using those images. We can also attach labels to containers while starting them. Having labeled an image or a container, the labels can later be used for filtering or selection purposes.

For this recipe, let's assume that we have an image with the label com.example.image=docker-cookbook. We will see how to assign a label to an image in the next chapter:

As you can see from the preceding screenshot, if we use filters with the...