Exercises

We've covered a lot of material in this chapter. To consolidate what we have learned, we recommend two exercises:

1. Run CouchDB as a Docker container and publish its port:

You can use the docker search command to find the CouchDB image.

• 1. Run the container
  2. Publish the CouchDB port
  3. Open the browser and check that CouchDB is available

2. Create a Docker image with the REST service replying Hello World! to localhost:8080/hello. Use any language and framework you prefer:

The easiest way to create a REST service is to use Python with the Flask framework (http://flask.pocoo.org/). Note that a lot of web frameworks, by default, start the application only on the localhost interface. In order to publish a port, it's necessary to start it on all interfaces (app.run(host='0.0.0.0' in the case of a Flask framework).

• 1. Create a web service application
  2. Create...