Docker Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Building Distributed Applications

Whether you're deploying applications on premise or in the cloud, this cookbook provides developers, operators, and IT professionals with more than 130 proven recipes for working with Docker.

With these practical solutions, experienced developers with no previous knowledge of Docker will be able to package and deploy distributed applications within a couple of chapters. IT professionals will be able to solve everyday problems, as well as create, run, share, and deploy Docker images. Operators will quickly be able to adopt the tools that will change the way they work.

The recipes in this book will help you:

• Manage containers, mount data volumes, and link containers
• Create and share container images
• Network containers across single or multiple hosts
• Tackle advanced topics such as Docker configuration and development
• Deploy multi-container applications on a distributed cluster with Kubernetes
• Use a new generation of operating systems optimized for Docker
• Learn tools for application deployment, continuous integration, service discovery, and orchestration
• Access a Docker host on Amazon AWS, Google GCE, and Microsoft Azure
• Monitor containers and explore different application use cases

Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90's when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high performance computing and with the advent of virtualization moved to cloud computing in the mid 2000s.He is currently a Senior Open Source Solutions Architect at Citrix, where he works primarily on the Apache CloudStack project, helping develop the CloudStack ecosystem.Sebastien is a project management committee member (PMC) of CloudStack and Apache libcloud and a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he focuses on the cloud ecosystem and has contributed to Knife-cloudstack, Eutester and Ansible. He is also driving the localization effort of the CloudStack documentation using Transifex and ReadTheDocs.