Docker Cookbook: Over 100 practical and insightful recipes to build distributed applications with Docker , 2nd Edition

by Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788625982
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/31/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	16 MB
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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.

Table of Contents

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