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Containers for Developers Handbook

You're reading from   Containers for Developers Handbook A practical guide to developing and delivering applications using software containers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127987
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Key Concepts of Containers
2. Chapter 1: Modern Infrastructure and Applications with Docker FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Docker Images 4. Chapter 3: Sharing Docker Images 5. Chapter 4: Running Docker Containers 6. Chapter 5: Creating Multi-Container Applications 7. Part 2:Container Orchestration
8. Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Container Orchestration 9. Chapter 7: Orchestrating with Swarm 10. Chapter 8: Deploying Applications with the Kubernetes Orchestrator 11. Part 3:Application Deployment
12. Chapter 9: Implementing Architecture Patterns 13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Application Data Management in Kubernetes 14. Chapter 11: Publishing Applications 15. Chapter 12: Gaining Application Insights 16. Part 4:Improving Applications’ Development Workflow
17. Chapter 13: Managing the Application Life Cycle 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the Docker Compose file syntax

We will use docker-compose with a YAML file, in which we will define all the services, volumes, and networks that will run together and be managed as components of an application. The YAML file used should follow the Compose application model (more information is available at https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/blob/master/spec.md). This model will distribute application components in services and their intercommunication with each other using networks. These networks provide the isolation and abstraction layers for our application containers. Services will store and share their data by using volumes.

Services may need additional configurations, and we will use config and secret resources to add specific information to manage the application’s behavior. These objects will be mounted inside our containers, and processes running inside them will use the provided configurations. Secrets will be used to inject sensitive data...

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