Docker for Developers

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: An Introduction to Docker – Containers and Local Development

Chapter 1: Introduction to Docker

The drivers for Docker  4

Co-located hosting 5

Self-hosting6

Data centers6

Using virtualization to economize resource usage  8

Addressing the increasing power requirements  10

Using containers to further optimize data center resources  13

Summary  15

Further reading  16

Chapter 2: Using VirtualBox and Docker Containers for Development

Technical requirements  18

Host filesystem pollution problem  18

Using VirtualBox for virtual machines  19

Introduction to virtualization19

Creating a virtual machine19

Guest additions22

Installing VirtualBox22

Using Docker containers  23

Introduction to containers24

Using Docker for ...