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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)

Benchmarking disk performance

There are tools such as Iozone (http://www.iozone.org), smallfile (https://github.com/bengland2/smallfile), and Flexible IO (https://github.com/axboe/fio), which are available to benchmark disk performance. For this recipe, we will use FIO. For that, we need to write a job file, which mimics the workload you want to run. Using this job file, we can simulate the workload on the target. For this recipe, let's take the FIO example from the benchmark results, which IBM has published (https://github.com/thewmf/kvm-docker-comparison/tree/master/fio).

Getting ready

On a bare metal/VM/Docker container, install FIO and mount the disk containing a filesystem for each test under /ferrari or anything...