Docker Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Leverage Docker to deploying software at scale

Key Features

• Leverage practical examples to manage containers efficiently
• Integrate with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes for controlled deployments
• Learn to implement best practices on improving efficiency and security of containers

Book Description

Docker is an open source platform for building, shipping, managing, and securing containers. Docker has become the tool of choice for people willing to work with containers. Since the market is moving toward containerization, Docker will definitely have a big role to play in the future tech market.

This book starts with setting up Docker in different environment, and helps you learn how to work with Docker images. Then, you will take a deep dive into network and data management for containers. The book explores the RESTful APIs provided by Docker to perform different actions, such as image/container operations. The book then explores logs and troubleshooting Docker to solve issues and bottlenecks. You will gain an understanding of Docker use cases, orchestration, security, ecosystems, and hosting platforms to make your applications easy to deploy, build, and collaborate on. The book covers the new features of Docker 18.xx (or later), such as working with AWS and Azure, Docker Engine, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, and so on.

By the end of this book, you will have gained hands-on experience of finding quick solutions to different problems encountered while working with Docker.

What you will learn

• Install Docker on various platforms
• Work with Docker images and containers
• Container networking and data sharing
• Docker APIs and language bindings
• Various PaaS solutions for Docker
• Implement container orchestration using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes
• Container security
• Docker on various clouds

Who this book is for

Book is targeted towards developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who want to use Docker in his/her development, QA, or production environments.

It is expected that the reader has basic Linux/Unix skills such as installing packages, editing files, managing services, and so on.

Any experience in virtualization technologies such as KVM, XEN, and VMware will be an added advantage

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Installation
2. Working with Docker Containers
3. Working with Docker Images
4. Network and Data Management for Containers
5. Docker Use Cases
6. Docker APIs and SDKs
7. Docker Performance
8. Docker Orchestration and Hosting a Platform
9. Docker Security
10. Getting Help and Tips and Tricks
11. Docker on the Cloud