May 2017
Beginner
268 pages
6h 1m
English
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
—Richard Feynman
In this chapter, we'll look at the emerging topic of containers and see how it relates to configuration management. We'll see how to use Puppet to manage the Docker daemon, as well as images and containers, and explore some different strategies for managing configuration within containers.

Although the technology behind containers is at least 30 years old, it's only in the last few years that containers have really taken off (to mix a metaphor). This is largely thanks to the rise of Docker, a software platform ...
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