Docker Cookbook

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

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.