Container Engineering with Docker: Fundamentals, Best Practices, and Production Workflows

Container Engineering with Docker: Fundamentals, Best Practices, and Production Workflows is a practical, comprehensive guide for engineers and teams mastering containerization and modern application delivery. Beginning with Docker’s architecture and core concepts—container isolation, images, networking, and storage—the book walks through installation, configuration, and securing Docker across Linux, Windows, and cloud environments. Readers gain a clear foundation that explains why containers transformed software delivery and how Docker fits into contemporary infrastructure.

Blending theory with hands-on best practices, the book shows how to build efficient, minimal images, optimize container runtimes, and design resilient multi-container applications. It covers real-world workflows for orchestration, CI/CD integration, persistent storage strategies, advanced networking, automated testing, observability, and production-grade security—including vulnerability management and compliance. Each chapter emphasizes reproducibility, performance tuning, and pragmatic patterns to move projects from development into stable production.

Concluding with a forward-looking assessment of industry trends and emerging security models, Container Engineering with Docker prepares readers to adapt as container ecosystems evolve. Whether you are designing cloud-native architectures, automating delivery pipelines, or operating services at scale, this book serves as an indispensable reference for building secure, scalable, and efficient containerized infrastructures and production workflows.