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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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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

Docker Engine

Docker Engine is the interface that provides access to the process isolation features of the Linux kernel. Since only Linux exposes the features that allow containers to run, Windows and macOS hosts leverage a Linux VM in the background to make container execution possible. For Windows and macOS users, Docker provides the "Docker Desktop" suite of packages that deploy and run this VM in the background for you. This allows Docker commands to be executed natively from the terminal or PowerShell console of the macOS or Windows host. Linux hosts have the privilege of directly executing the Docker Engine natively because modern versions of the Linux kernel support cgroups and namespace isolation.

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Since Windows, macOS, and Linux have fundamentally different operating system architectures in terms of networking and process management, a few of the examples in this book (specifically in regard to networking) are sometimes called out as having different behaviors...

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