Modern Docker: Containers in Today's On-Prem, Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Environment (Site Reliability Engineering) - Softcover

Bailey, John

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798170859665

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Docker has changed the way modern organizations build, deploy, and operate applications. But learning to run a container is only the beginning.

Modern Docker takes you from your first Docker container to the practical engineering challenges of running containerized applications in on-premises data centers, private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid environments.

Designed for developers, system administrators, Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and infrastructure professionals, this book emphasizes both hands-on Docker skills and the operational thinking required to run containers reliably.

You will learn how to:

• Install and configure Docker on Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Build production-quality container images with Dockerfiles
• Manage images, containers, networks, and persistent storage
• Build multi-container applications with Docker Compose
• Configure health checks, restart policies, logging, and resource limits
• Monitor container CPU, memory, network, and storage consumption
• Apply practical Docker security and image-security techniques
• Work with private and public container registries
• Build container images as part of CI/CD pipelines
• Automate Docker environments with Python, Terraform, and Ansible
• Understand how Docker-built applications move into Kubernetes
• Design container environments for on-premises, public-cloud, private-cloud, and hybrid-cloud infrastructure
• Troubleshoot containers using an SRE-oriented methodology

The book is deliberately hands-on. Instead of simply presenting commands, it guides you through progressively more sophisticated exercises—from a simple container to a multi-service application with networking, persistent storage, observability, security, automation, and failure testing.

Along the way, you will learn an essential lesson of modern infrastructure engineering:

Running a container is easy. Running containers reliably is an engineering discipline.

Whether you are beginning your container journey or adding Docker to an existing SRE, DevOps, platform-engineering, or cloud-infrastructure skill set, Modern Docker provides a practical foundation for building and operating containerized applications in the real world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798170859665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312