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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789536058

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Richard Bullington-McGuire

Michael Schwartz

Andrew K. Dennis

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: An Introduction to Docker – Containers and Local Development

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Docker FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Using VirtualBox and Docker Containers for Development

4. Chapter 3: Sharing Containers Using Docker Hub

5. Chapter 4: Composing Systems Using Containers

6. Section 2: Running Docker in Production

7. Chapter 5: Alternatives for Deploying and Running Containers in Production

8. Chapter 6: Deploying Applications with Docker Compose

9. Chapter 7: Continuous Deployment with Jenkins

10. Chapter 8: Deploying Docker Apps to Kubernetes

11. Chapter 9: Cloud-Native Continuous Deployment Using Spinnaker

12. Chapter 10: Monitoring Docker Using Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger

13. Chapter 11: Scaling and Load Testing Docker Applications

14. Section 3: Docker Security – Securing Your Containers

15. Chapter 12: Introduction to Container Security

16. Chapter 13: Docker Security Fundamentals and Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Advanced Docker Security – Secrets, Secret Commands, Tagging, and Labels

18. Chapter 15: Scanning, Monitoring, and Using Third-Party Tools

19. Chapter 16: Conclusion – End of the Road, but not the Journey

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Chapter 3: Sharing Containers Using Docker Hub

In the previous chapter, we learned how to build a container and run it on our workstation using Docker. We used a Debian image as our starting point, but where did that image come from? The answer is that it came from Docker Hub. Docker Hub is the official container image library for Docker, run by the same folk who brought us Docker itself.

The container library contains the official images for numerous programs, servers, services, and so on that you might install within your own containers. For example, there are official images for various Linux distributions, versions of Node.js, versions of MySQL and MongoDB, and so on.

You can think of Docker Hub as being like GitHub. You can explore existing organizations and pre-made containers, as well as upload your own containers and create your own organizations.

We will demonstrate how to use the Docker Hub website to search and get information for third-party containers that you...