Docker in Practice

I wanted a book to learn the basics of Docker. This has been fantastic - really easy to read and with great examples. Highly recommended ..

A go-to Docker book! This book gives practical walkthroughs on how you can leverage Docker to create solutions. It’s well-structured and easy to follow. Recommended!

This book is absolutely jam-packed with practical advice, scripts, tips for real-world practical scenarios. Whereas many books tread the same ground, this absolutely brims with practical how-to suggestions and advice. Highly recommended.

Docker in Practise book is a very readable book that helped me quickly get to grips with Docker concepts and operation. As you progress to using Docker in real projects, the recipe format provide useful approaches and tips to help solve real world issues, and introduces more advanced Docker concepts. Recommended.

This is an excellent Docker resource. The book is well laid out introducing topics among 101 problems and their solutions with clear explanations. The logical structure of the book is perfect for me. There are lots of nuggets for people familiar with Docker as well as newbies.The only downside is that Docker is moving so fast that some of it may get dated but it's still relevant today and I'll be watching out for later editions when they come out.

Like the previous reviewer, i've read a few docker books and basically retread the same ground a few times. Each book had a little something the other didn't, but on the whole, essentially the same core principles. This book starts off strong and gets better and better. I've never read the '... in Practice' series before, but its more like a combined cookbook and tutorial. There is overview on each topic and then a set of 'how do i?' and the solution. It is most definitely not afraid to tackle the real-world topics and issues that will be faced. It was a great read, and the enthusiasm of the authors is fantastic. I don't write many reviews but this was so good I had to. If I could get or recommend one book it would definitely be this.It's a perfect blend of reference, tutorial and solutions.

There are by now quite a few introductory books on Docker, but they mostly suffer from the same faults: they cover only the simple things. Doing simple things with Docker is very simple, and hardly needs a book-length explanation, but as soon as you try to do something non-trivial with Docker, things get complicated very quickly. "Docker in Practice" is completely unafraid of this, and dives straight into solving real-world problems with containers: transitioning from VMs, breaking down a system into microservices, persisting volumes, advanced image building techniques, continuous integration and Selenium testing, etcd and confd, network simulation, security, monitoring, performance, and debugging.It also addresses what I think is the biggest issue with Docker in production today: configuration management and orchestration. Many people are still treating Docker as a 'lite' alternative to full-fat CM tools: Puppet, Chef, and so on, but they're in for an unpleasant surprise as the disease of 'container sprawl' sets in: fragile manual setups frozen as hard-to-maintain images, rapidly getting out of sync, with no central infrastructure-as-code repository, change control, or versioning. Full marks to the authors for tackling this head on, with detailed worked examples of managing Dockerfiles with traditional Unix tools such as Perl and make, Docker-native tools like Docker Compose, Helios, Swarm, and Kubernetes, and 'pure' CM tools such as Chef Solo.The Docker ecosystem is fluid and developing extremely fast; accordingly, the authors have wisely decided to make their survey of tools broad but shallow, giving just enough information in each recipe to get you up and running with a particular technique, but not so much detail that the book would rapidly become out of date. Finally, they are refreshingly honest about the bugs and shortcomings of Docker and associated tools, and provide practical advice and tips for actually getting stuff to work.For me, this is the one essential Docker book.