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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Technical requirements

In this chapter, the containers we will be launching will only work on a Windows Docker host. We will be using VirtualBox and Vagrant on macOS- and Linux-based machines to assist in getting a Windows Docker host up and running.

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An introduction to Windows containers

As someone who has been using mostly macOS and Linux computers and laptops alongside Linux servers pretty much daily for the past 20 years, coupled with the fact that my only experience of running Microsoft Windows was the Windows XP and Windows 10 gaming PCs I have had (along with the odd Windows server I was unable to avoid at work), the advent of Windows containers was an interesting development.

Now, I would never have classed myself as a Linux/Unix fanboy; however, Microsoft’s actions over the last few years have surprised even me. Back in 2014, at one of its Azure events, Microsoft declared “...