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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

You're reading from   Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x Everything you need to know about containerizing your applications and running them in production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788997027
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What Are Containers and Why Should I Use Them? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up a Working Environment 3. Working with Containers 4. Creating and Managing Container Images 5. Data Volumes and System Management 6. Distributed Application Architecture 7. Single-Host Networking 8. Docker Compose 9. Orchestrators 10. Introduction to Docker Swarm 11. Zero Downtime Deployments and Secrets 12. Introduction to Kubernetes 13. Deploying, Updating, and Securing an Application with Kubernetes 14. Running a Containerized App in the Cloud 15. Assessment 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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In this chapter, we introduced the tool docker-compose. This tool is mostly used to run and scale multi-service applications on a single Docker host. Typically, developers and CI servers work with single hosts and those two are the main users of Docker Compose. The tool is using YAML files as input that contain the description of the application in a declarative way.

The tool can also be used to build and push images among many other helpful tasks. The code accompanying this chapter can be found in labs/ch08.

In the next chapter, we are going to introduce orchestrators. An orchestrator is an infrastructure software that is used to run and manage containerized applications in a cluster and it makes sure that these applications are in their desired state at all the time. 

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