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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Introducing Docker Swarm

Before we go any further, I should mention that there are two very different versions of Docker Swarm. There was a standalone version of Docker Swarm—this was supported up until Docker 1.12 and is no longer being actively developed; however, you may find some old documentation mentions it. Installation of the standalone Docker Swarm is not recommended as Docker ended support for version 1.11.x in the first quarter of 2017.

Docker version 1.12 introduced Docker Swarm mode. This introduced all of the functionality that was available in the standalone Docker Swarm version into the core Docker Engine, along with a significant number of additional features. As we are covering Docker 19.03 and higher in this book, we will be using Docker Swarm mode, which, for the remainder of the chapter, we will refer to as Docker Swarm.

As you are already running a version of Docker with in-built support for Docker Swarm, there isn't anything you need to do in...