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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

Immutable infrastructure

When you deploy an update to your application, you should create new instances (servers and/or containers) and destroy the old ones, instead of trying to upgrade them in place. Once your application is running, you don't touch it! The benefits come in the form of repeatability, reduced management overhead, easier rollbacks, and so on. An immutable image is an image that contains everything it needs to run the application, so it comprises the source code. One of the principles of Docker containers is that an image is immutable. That is, once built, it is unchangeable, and if you want to make changes, you'll get a new image as a result.

Docker containers are self-sufficient and hence we just have to run the container without any hassle about anything else, such as mounting volumes. This means that we can share our application with our users or partners in a more easy and transparent...

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