Docker: Up & Running, 2nd Edition

Preface

This book is aimed at both systems engineers and developers, with the main focus on getting you to the point where you have a working Docker environment and steering you toward good choices that will support a robust production system. Along the way we’ll explore how to build, test, deploy, and debug Docker applications in both development and production. We’ll also cover a few of the significant orchestration tools in the Docker ecosystem. And finally we’ll round all of that out with some guidance on security and best practices for your container environment.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is intended for anyone who is looking to solve the complex workflow problems involved in developing and deploying software to production at scale. If you’re interested in Docker, Linux containers, DevOps, and large, scalable, software infrastructures, then this book is for you.

Why Read This Book?

Today there are many conversations, projects, and articles on the internet about Docker. So why should you devote precious hours to reading this book?

Even though there is a lot of information out there, Docker is a new technology that is evolving very quickly. Even during the time that it took us to write the first release of this book, Docker, Inc. released four versions of Docker plus a few major tools into their ecosystem. In the three years between the first and second editions of this book, the landscape has changed significantly. Docker has become much more stable and instead ...