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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Plugin API

Docker maintains a plugin API to help the community write their plugins. This means that anyone can develop new plugins as long as they implement it in accordance with the plugin API. This approach makes Docker an open and extensible platform. The plugin API is a Remote Procedure Call (RPC)-style JSON API that works over HTTP. Docker Engine sends HTTP POST requests to the plugin and uses the responses to continue its operations.

Docker also provides an official open-source SDK for creating new plugins and helper packages to extend Docker Engine. The helper packages are boilerplate templates if you want to easily create and run new plugins. Currently, there are only helper packages in Go since Go is the main implementation language of Docker Engine itself. It is located at https://github.com/docker/go-plugins-helpers and provides helpers for every kind of plugin supported by Docker:

Figure 15.1: Go plugin helpers

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