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F. ZammettiModern Full-Stack Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5738-8_12

12. Bringing the Dev Ship into Harbor: Docker

Frank Zammetti1 
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Pottstown, PA, USA
 

With both MailBag and BattleJong built, it’s time to touch on one last topic that has become very common in modern application development to deal with the problem of application distribution: Docker. In this chapter, you’ll learn what Docker is and what containerization generically is, and you’ll learn how to “wrap up” both of the applications we built over the last four chapters together with Docker so that it is quick and easy to distribute them to other developers (and possibly even end users).

An Introduction to Containers and Containerization

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