5 Poking Docker
This chapter covers
- What Docker is, how it works, and where it came from
- Designing chaos experiments for software running in Docker
- Performing chaos experiments on Docker itself
- Using tools like Pumba to implement chaos experiments in Docker
Oh, Docker! With its catchy name and lovely whale logo, Docker has become the public face of Linux containers in just a few short years since its first release in 2013. I now routinely hear things like, “Have you Dockerized it?” and, “Just build an image with that; I don’t want to install the dependencies.” And it’s for a good reason. Docker capitalized on existing technology in the Linux kernel to offer a convenient and easy-to-use tool, ready for everyone to adopt. It played an important ...
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