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Docker Deep Dive
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Docker Deep Dive

by Nigel Poulton
October 2020
Beginner
250 pages
6h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Docker Deep Dive

4: The big picture

The aim of this chapter is to paint a quick big-picture of what Docker is all about before we dive in deeper in later chapters.

We’ll break this chapter into two:

  • The Ops perspective
  • The Dev perspective

In the Ops Perspective section, we’ll download an image, start a new container, log in to the new container, run a command inside of it, and then destroy it.

In the Dev Perspective section, we’ll focus more on the app. We’ll clone some app-code from GitHub, inspect a Dockerfile, containerize the app, run it as a container.

These two sections will give you a good idea of what Docker is all about and how the major components fit together. It’s recommended that you read both sections to get the dev and the ops perspectives. ...

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ISBN: 9781800565135