Preface

Software engineering teams are rapidly adopting containers to package and deploy their software. Providing a platform-agnostic experience, containers allow you to run applications with a variety of operating system images and to deploy on-premises, in data centers, and in the cloud. In order to support container-based applications, vendors have developed a wide variety of tools, ranging from Docker and Google's Kubernetes project to Lyft's Envoy service mesh and Netflix's Spinnaker. Whether you are working on the software development side of the house, hosting, and infrastructure, or constructing DevOps pipelines, you need both a broad and in-depth understanding of many concepts in order to manage container-based environments.

In Docker for Developers, we will start with a walk-through of the basics of developing with containers locally using Docker, and then move on to deploying production-ready, cloud-hosted systems with AWS. If you are interested in learning about container orchestration, deployment, monitoring, and security, then we think you will enjoy this book.