Docker Cookbook

80 hands-on recipes to efficiently work with the Docker 1.6 environment on Linux

About This Book

• Provides practical techniques and knowledge of various emerging and developing APIs to help you create scalable services
• Create, manage, and automate production-quality services while dealing with inherent issues
• Each recipe is carefully organized with instructions to complete the task efficiently

Who This Book Is For

Docker Cookbook is for developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who want to use Docker in his/her development, QA, or production environments.

It is expected that the reader has basic Linux/Unix skills such as installing packages, editing files, managing services, and so on.

Any experience in virtualization technologies such as KVM, XEN, and VMware will help the reader to relate with container technologies better, but it is not required.

In Detail

Docker is a Linux container engine that allows you to create consistent, stable, and production-quality environments with containers.

You will start by installing Docker and understanding and working with containers and images. You then proceed to learn about network and data management for containers. The book explores the RESTful APIs provided by Docker to perform different actions such as image/container operations. Finally, the book explores logs and troubleshooting Docker to solve issues and bottlenecks. This book will also help you understand Docker use cases, orchestration, security, ecosystems, and hosting platforms to make your applications easy to deploy, build, and collaborate on.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction and Installation
Chapter 2. Working with Docker Containers
Chapter 3. Working with Docker Images
Chapter 4. Network and Data Management for Containers
Chapter 5. Docker Use Cases
Chapter 6. Docker APIs and Language Bindings
Chapter 7. Docker Performance
Chapter 8. Docker Orchestration and Hosting Platforms
Chapter 9. Docker Security
Chapter 10. Getting Help and Tips and Tricks