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Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

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

The network is one of the key aspects to consider while deploying the applications in the container environment. To do performance comparison with bare metal, the VM, and the container, we have to consider different scenarios as follows:

  • Bare metal to bare metal
  • VM to VM
  • Docker container to a container with the default networking mode (bridge)
  • Docker container to a container with host net (--net=host)
  • Docker container running inside a VM with the external world

In any of the preceding cases, we can pick up two endpoints to do the benchmarking. We can use tools such as nuttcp (http://www.nuttcp.net) and netperf (https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf) to measure the network bandwidth and request/response, respectively.

Getting ready

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