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Mastering Docker: Rethink what's possible with Docker
Docker has been a game-changer when it comes to virtualization – it has now grown to become a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, having an impact on the world of web development and more. But how can you make sure you’re keeping up with the innovations that it’s driving? How can you be sure you’re using it to its full potential? Mastering Docker shows you how – it not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively, it also helps you rethink and reimagine what’s possible with Docker.
Covering best practices to make sure you’re confident with and the basics, such as building, managing and storing containers, before diving deeper into Docker security, you’ll find everything you need to help you extend and integrate Docker in new and innovative ways. You’ll learn how to take greater control over your containers using some of Docker’s most sophisticated and useful tools, such as Docker compose and Docker swarm, before bringing together everything you already know and have learned to put your containers into production and monitor them for safety and performance.
Beyond this, you’ll also explore even more advanced strategies, as you learn how to extend and integrate Docker with cloud platforms such as Heroku and OpenStack, and how tools such as Kubernetes can improve the way you manage large-scale container orchestration. With further guidance on how you can use configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef and PowerShell, by the end of the book you’ll have a broad and detailed sense of exactly what’s possible with Docker – and how seamlessly it fits with a range of other platforms and tools.
Covering best practices to make sure you’re confident with and the basics, such as building, managing and storing containers, before diving deeper into Docker security, you’ll find everything you need to help you extend and integrate Docker in new and innovative ways. You’ll learn how to take greater control over your containers using some of Docker’s most sophisticated and useful tools, such as Docker compose and Docker swarm, before bringing together everything you already know and have learned to put your containers into production and monitor them for safety and performance.
Beyond this, you’ll also explore even more advanced strategies, as you learn how to extend and integrate Docker with cloud platforms such as Heroku and OpenStack, and how tools such as Kubernetes can improve the way you manage large-scale container orchestration. With further guidance on how you can use configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef and PowerShell, by the end of the book you’ll have a broad and detailed sense of exactly what’s possible with Docker – and how seamlessly it fits with a range of other platforms and tools.
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 28, 2018
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Scott Gallagher
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December 26, 2019
Good book if you're looking to start docker from scratch.
December 29, 2019
How does one "master" docker when there is not a single word about layers?
How does one "master" docker when you have "sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git" with a description of "so it doesn't have to wait for one process to end to start the other"?
This is another book coming from a book farm where people write about things they don't know properly. This is another book coming from a book farm where reviewers seem picked in the basis of "does not know enough about the subject to not make a fuss so we can publish it as soon as possible".
If you want to learn about docker, stay away from this book. It will do more harm than good.
How does one "master" docker when you have "sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git" with a description of "so it doesn't have to wait for one process to end to start the other"?
This is another book coming from a book farm where people write about things they don't know properly. This is another book coming from a book farm where reviewers seem picked in the basis of "does not know enough about the subject to not make a fuss so we can publish it as soon as possible".
If you want to learn about docker, stay away from this book. It will do more harm than good.
May 11, 2018
I'm going to be honest: I had higher hopes for a book about "mastering" a topic. This isn't a truly bad book, if you are completely new to Docker. It is basically an extended tutorial that explains all the different commands. What I would have liked to have seen was less time spent on all the potential command variants and more time on the concepts and under-the-cover workings of the technology.
December 13, 2017
Good introduction for me.
January 18, 2018
A good book to read to understand Docker and to start off with it. Definitely not one which will give one a mastery over Docker. In depth coverage required for mastering Docker is missing.
June 7, 2021
The content of the book is not for a "mastering" book, is just an "introducing", very disappointed
January 8, 2024
Very good foundation for containerized and cloud journey.
April 30, 2017
This book covers pretty much everything you need to know about this amazing technology called Docker. But. While reading it, I had a feeling that something is not covered. And sometimes I had to figure things out by my own. Also, if you are not familiar with Linux, this book might be a little bit difficult.
Yet I must say, Mr.Gallaher did a good job explaining all of this. Even considering what I said before, it's a good book to learn Docker.
Yet I must say, Mr.Gallaher did a good job explaining all of this. Even considering what I said before, it's a good book to learn Docker.
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