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You're reading from Docker High Performance Complete your Docker journey by optimizing your application's work?ows and performance

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789807219

Length 174 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Russ McKendrick

Allan Espinosa

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Preparing Docker Hosts

2. Configuring Docker with Chef FREE CHAPTER

3. Monitoring Docker

4. Optimizing Docker Images

5. Deploying Containers

6. Benchmarking

7. Load Balancing

8. Troubleshooting Containers

9. Onto Production

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned more about how Docker builds images and applied that knowledge to improve several factors, such as the deploy time, build time, and image size. We also learned a few points to guide us further in our optimization journey.

In the next chapter, we will take these optimized Docker images we built and deploy them.

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Authors (2)

Espinosa

Allan Espinosa is a DevOps practitioner and an active open source contributor to various distributed system tools, such as Docker and Chef. Allan maintains several Docker images for popular open source software that were popular even before their official release from the upstream open source groups. Throughout his career, Allan has worked on large distributed systems containing hundreds to thousands of servers in production. He has built scalable applications on various platforms, ranging from large supercomputing centers to production clusters in the enterprise. He is currently managing distributed systems at scale for Bloomberg, where he oversees the company's Hadoop infrastructure. Allan can be contacted through his Twitter handle, @AllanEspinosa.

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Russ McKendrick

Russ McKendrick is an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. He has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 30 years. During his career, he has had responsibilities in many different sectors, including first-line, second-line, and senior support in client-facing and internal teams for small and large organizations. He works almost exclusively with Linux, using open source systems and tools across dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where he holds the title of practice manager (SRE and DevOps). He also buys way too many records!

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