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Docker

Made Crystal Clear

A practical, visual guide to building, shipping, and running containers

Docker is the tool that made containers ordinary, and it is still the one most developers use daily without quite trusting their own mental model of it. This guide fixes the model first: what a container actually is (and is not), how images, layers, volumes, and networks fit together, then the practice: writing Dockerfiles that build fast and small, running multi-container apps with Compose, and getting your work safely from a laptop to production, explained visually and hands-on.

Pages
193
Level
Beginner to advanced
Status
Available

Inside the book

  1. 01The Tool Everyone Uses and Nobody Trusts
  2. 02What a Container Actually Is
  3. 03Images, Layers, and Where Containers Come From
  4. 04Running Containers: the Everyday Ten Commands
  5. 05Dockerfiles That Do Not Embarrass You
  6. 06Fast Builds, Small Images
  7. 07Volumes: Where Data Actually Lives
  8. 08Networking Without the Fog
  9. 09Compose: Your Whole App in One File
  10. 10Debugging Containers
  11. 11Security Without Paranoia
  12. 12The Money and Licensing Chapter
  13. 13From Laptop to Production, and What to Learn Next

You'll leave with

  • Understand what a container actually is: processes, isolation, and images, not tiny VMs
  • Read and write Dockerfiles that build fast, small, and reproducible images
  • Master the everyday workflow: build, run, exec, logs, stop, clean up

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