Docker in Practice

Preface

In September 2013, while browsing Hacker News, I stumbled across an article in Wired about a new technology called “Docker.”^[1] As I read it, I became increasingly excited as I realized Docker’s revolutionary potential.

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http://www.wired.com/2013/09/docker/

The company I’d worked at for over a decade was struggling to deliver software quickly enough. Provisioning environments was a costly, time-consuming, manual, and inelegant affair. Continuous integration was barely existent, and setting up development environments was an exercise in patience. As my job title included the words “DevOps Manager,” I was peculiarly motivated to solve these problems!

I recruited a couple of motivated coworkers (one of them now my coauthor) via a ...