Docker Cookbook - Second Edition - Softcover

Jeeva S. Chelladhurai; Neependra Khare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788626869 ISBN 13: 9781788626866

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2018

Synopsis

Key Features

• Helps you by providing solutions to day-to-day problems while working on Docker
• Plan efficient working with Docker APIs, orchestration, and hosting platform such as Project Atomic
• 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 a choice of tool for people willing to work with Containers and the current market is moving towards containerization, Docker will definitely have a big role to play in the future tech market.

This book will initially start with setting up Docker in different environment and learn to work with Docker image. Then we will take a deep dive into network and data management for container. The book explores the RESTful APIs provided by Docker to perform different actions such as image/container operations. Finally, the book explores logs and troubleshooting Docker to solve issues and bottlenecks. This book will also help you understand Docker use cases, orchestration, security, ecosystems, and hosting platforms to make your applications easy to deploy, build, and collaborate on. The book will exclusively cover new features of Docker 17.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 gain hands-on experience in finding quick solutions to different problems encountered while working with Docker.

What you will learn

• Installing Docker on various platforms
• Working with Docker images and containers
• Container Networking and Data Sharing
• Docker APIs and language bindings
• Various PaaS solution for Docker
• Implementing Container Orchestration using Docker Swarm
• Container Security
• Docker on Various Clouds

About this title

About the Author

Ken Cochrane is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience working with organizations to build large-scale applications and platforms. Ken was a founding team member at Docker, where he was the lead developer for the Docker Hub, and Docker for AWS products. As an early team member, he worked on everything from the Docker Engine to documentation. Ken also helped create Docker meetup groups in New York, Boston, and Portland Maine. Ken currently works for WEX, a global payments company, where he leads a team and helps modernize their technology stack by moving to the cloud and automating their development pipeline using containers. He currently resides in Southern Maine with his wife, Emily, and two sons, Zander and Maddox. His Twitter handle is @kencochrane.

Jeeva S. Chelladhurai has been working as a DevOps specialist at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in India for the past 8 years. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. In various capacities, he has technically managed and mentored diverse teams across the globe in envisaging and building pioneering telecommunication products. He specializes in DevOps and cloud solution delivery, with a focus on data center optimization, software-defined environments (SDEs), and distributed application development, deployment, and delivery using the newest Docker technology. Jeeva is also a strong proponent of agile methodologies, DevOps, and IT automation. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a graduate certificate in project management from Boston University. He has been instrumental in crafting reusable assets for IBM solution architects and consultants in Docker-inspired containerization technology.

Neependra K Khare is the founder and principal consultant at CloudYuga. CloudYuga provides training and consulting on Docker, Kubernetes, GO Programming, and so on. He is one of the Docker Captains and has run Docker Meetup Group in Bangalore for around 4 years. In 2015, he authored a book on Docker, Docker Cookbook. In 2016, he coauthored a course on Cloud Infrastructure Technologies at Edx for the Linux Foundation. Recently, he authored a course on Kubernetes on Edx, for the Linux Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788626869
• ISBN 13: 9781788626866
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 380