June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
54 pages
1h 5m
English
Overview
IT professionals continue to sing the praises of Docker and other container technologies, but so far, most enterprises have only managed to put a toe in the water. Many companies use Docker only for staging and testing purposes with relatively little adoption within production environments. With this practical book, you’ll learn how your enterprise can fully leverage Docker and other container platforms in a systematic way.
Author and analyst Christopher Tozzi shows executives and DevOps personnel how to use containers and microservices more extensively and effectively than they do now. This book dives into Docker’s functionality and explores other types of container and microservices technologies (such as system containers and unikernels) that can help enterprises achieve next-generation efficiency in their IT operations.
- Dive into Docker’s killer features and learn how this technology can complement or replace your existing infrastructure
- Understand the differences between containers and virtual machines and learn when to use the former, the latter, or both in combination
- Explore the types of companies that have adopted Docker successfully, and the migration challenges they’ve faced
- Get a brief history of microservices and containerization to understand how containers arrived in the enterprise
- Learn resources to help smooth your Docker migration—and pitfalls to avoid
- Go beyond Docker to learn the entire landscape of application containers, system containers, and unikernels
- Examine three key areas that the container ecosystem needs to develop to ensure containers’ lasting influence on the enterprise
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.