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Learning Docker

You're reading from   Learning Docker Build, ship, and scale faster

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786462923
Length 300 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jeeva S. Chelladhurai Jeeva S. Chelladhurai
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Pethuru Raj Pethuru Raj
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Vinod Singh Vinod Singh
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Docker 2. Handling Docker Containers FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Images 4. Publishing Images 5. Running Your Private Docker Infrastructure 6. Running Services in a Container 7. Sharing Data with Containers 8. Orchestrating Containers 9. Testing with Docker 10. Debugging Containers 11. Securing Docker Containers 12. The Docker Platform – Distinct Capabilities and Use Cases

Sharing Data with Containers

"Do one thing at a time and do it well," has been one of the successful mantras in the Information Technology (IT) sector for quite a long time now. This widely used tenet fits nicely to build and expose Docker containers too, and it is being prescribed as one of the best practices to avail the originally envisaged benefits of the Docker-inspired containerization paradigm. This means that, we must inscribe a single application along with its direct dependencies and libraries inside a Docker container in order to ensure the container's independence, self-sufficiency, horizontal scalability, and maneuverability. Let's see why containers are that important:

  • The temporal nature of containers: The container typically lives as long as the application lives and vice versa. However, this has some negative implications for the application data. Applications naturally go through...
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