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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)

Visualizing the image hierarchy

Docker provides multiple commands to learn about its images in a textual format. However, a picture is worth a thousand words, so it is imperative that we can visualize the image hierarchy through graphs. While Docker doesn't support any image visualization tool, numerous solutions are available to visualize the image hierarchy. In this recipe, we will visualize the image hierarchy using a nate/dockviz container and Graphviz.

Getting ready

Before we begin, we need one or more Docker images on the host to be running a Docker daemon. We also need to ensure that Graphviz is installed.

How to...