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Mastering Docker - Third Edition

By : Russ McKendrick, Scott Gallagher
Book Image

Mastering Docker - Third Edition

By: Russ McKendrick, Scott Gallagher

Overview of this book

Docker has been a game-changer when it comes to how modern applications are deployed and created. It has now grown into a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, with an impact on the world of web development. But how can you make sure you're keeping up with the innovations it's driving, or be sure you're using it to its full potential? Mastering Docker shows you how; this book not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively, but also helps you rethink and reimagine what's possible with it. You will cover concepts such as building, managing, and storing images, along with best practices to make you confident, before delving more into Docker security. You'll find everything related to extending and integrating Docker in new and innovative ways. Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes will help you take control of your containers in an efficient manner. By the end of the book, you will have a broad, yet detailed, sense of what's possible with Docker, and how seamlessly it fits in with a range of other platforms and tools.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

The road to Portainer

Before we roll up our sleeves and dive into installing and using Portainer, we should discuss the background of the project. The first edition of this book covered Docker UI. Docker UI was written by Michael Crosby, who handed the project over to Kevan Ahlquist after about a year of development. It was at this stage, due to trademark concerns, that the project was renamed UI for Docker.

Development of UI for Docker continued up until the point Docker started to accelerate the introduction of features such as Swarm mode into the core Docker Engine. It was around this time that the UI for Docker project was forked into the project that would become Portainer, which had its first major release in June 2016.

Since their first public release, the team behind Portainer estimate the majority of the code has already been updated or rewritten, and by mid-2017, new...