You're reading from Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition Enhance your containerization and DevOps skills to deliver production-ready applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216572

Length 568 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Docker

2. Chapter 1: Docker Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building Container Images

4. Chapter 3: Storing and Distributing Images

5. Chapter 4: Managing Containers

6. Chapter 5: Docker Compose

7. Chapter 6: Docker Machine, Vagrant, and Multipass

8. Section 2: Clusters and Clouds

9. Chapter 7: Moving from Linux to Windows Containers

10. Chapter 8: Clustering with Docker Swarm

11. Chapter 9: Portainer – A GUI for Docker

12. Chapter 10: Running Docker in Public Clouds

13. Chapter 11: Docker and Kubernetes

14. Chapter 12: Discovering other Kubernetes options

15. Chapter 13: Running Kubernetes in Public Clouds

16. Section 3: Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Docker Security

18. Chapter 15: Docker Workflows

19. Chapter 16: Next Steps with Docker

20. Assessments

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The first of the public cloud providers we are going to be looking at in this chapter is AWS. It was first launched in July 2002 as an internal service used within Amazon to provide a few disparate services to support the Amazon retail site. A year or so later, an internal presentation at Amazon laid the groundwork for what AWS was to become: a standardized and completely automated compute infrastructure to support Amazon's vision of a web-based retail platform.

At the end of the presentation, it was mentioned that Amazon could possibly sell access to some of the services AWS had to offer to help fund the infrastructure investment required to get the platform off the ground. In late 2004, the first of these public services was launched – Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), a distributed message queuing service. Around this time, Amazon started work on services that it could consume for the retail site and services it could sell to the public...