Docker: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Leverage Docker best practices in your production apps

Learn

Create a robust image packaging mechanism with Docker and git
Create and troubleshoot networking in Docker
Make inter-container communication with best proven tricks and techniques
Make your storage robust with mastering Docker volumes
Integrate Kubernetes with docker and leverage it for orchestration of services
Ensure no data loss between containers by leveraging volume lifecycle
Diagnose and debug the most common problems with Docker images
Improve the performance of Docker images and build processes to support this
Leverage Docker Compose for orchestrating complex architectures
Create and operate cloud deployment of multi-container setups
Create secure Docker and K8S deployments

About

This course will give you new possibilities to get the best out of Docker and enhance your skill set. It covers the key aspects of Docker to allow you to create, deploy, and run production-ready applications with Docker using a practical hands-on approach.

In this course, you'll learn to make your storage robust using Docker volumes, ensuring no data loss between containers by leveraging volume lifecycle. You will create and troubleshoot networking in Docker. Next, you will be able to make inter-container communication with best-practice, proven tricks and techniques. We will create a robust image packaging mechanism, and diagnose and debug the most common Docker problems.You will also learn to improve the performance of your set-up by leveraging advanced Docker commands. We will use Kubernetes with Docker to tackle more complex problems of deployment. Finally, you will leverage Docker Compose for orchestrating complex architecture and to create the cloud deployment of multi-container setup with AWS, Azure and GCP.

By the end of this course, you will be armed with crucial tips, best practices, and techniques on Docker. You will be able to tackle and troubleshoot Docker issues in production applications. Please note that proficiency with Docker and AWS is assumed for taking this course.

All the code and supporting files for this course are available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Docker-Tips-Tricks-and-Techniques

Features

Use Docker tricks and techniques to make your Docker-based applications more robust and fault-tolerant
Leverage Docker networking and persistence in Docker images to make them fully production-ready
Learn how to undertake orchestration of multi-container setups in the cloud using Docker compose