Chapter 6. Running Services in a Container

We've reached so far, brick by brick, laying a strong and stimulating foundation on the fast-evolving Docker technology. We talked about the important building blocks of the highly usable and reusable Docker images. Further on, you can read the easy-to-employ techniques and tips on how to store and share Docker images through a well-designed storage framework. As usual, images will have to go through a series of verifications, validations, and refinements constantly in order to make them more right and relevant for the aspiring development community. In this chapter, we are going to take our learning to the next level by describing the steps towards creating a small web server, run the same inside a container, and connect to the web server from the external world.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Container networking
• Container as a Service (CaaS)—building, running, exposing, and connecting to container services...