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The Docker Workshop

You're reading from   The Docker Workshop Learn how to use Docker containers effectively to speed up the development process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983444
Length 792 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Engy Fouda Engy Fouda
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Onur Yılmaz Onur Yılmaz
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Sathsara Sarathchandra Sathsara Sarathchandra
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Aric Renzo Aric Renzo
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Vincent Sesto Vincent Sesto
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Preface
1. Running My First Docker Container 2. Getting Started with Dockerfiles FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Your Docker Images 4. Multi-Stage Dockerfiles 5. Composing Environments with Docker Compose 6. Introduction to Docker Networking 7. Docker Storage 8. CI/CD Pipeline 9. Docker Swarm 10. Kubernetes 11. Docker Security 12. Best Practices 13. Monitoring Docker Metrics 14. Collecting Container Logs 15. Extending Docker with Plugins Appendix

The Kubernetes API and Access

The Kubernetes API is the fundamental building block of the Kubernetes system. It is the home for all communication between the components in the cluster. External communication, such as user commands, is also executed against the Kubernetes API as REST API calls. The Kubernetes API is a resource-based interface over HTTP. In other words, the API server is oriented to work with resources to create and manage Kubernetes resources. In this section, you will connect to the API, and in the following section, you will start working with Kubernetes resources, including, but not limited to, Pods, Deployments, Statefulsets, and Services.

Kubernetes has an official command-line tool for client access, named kubectl. If you want to access a Kubernetes cluster, you need to install the kubectl tool and configure it to connect to your cluster. Then you can securely use the tool to manage the life cycle of applications running the cluster. kubectl is capable of essential...

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