Chapter 1. Getting Started with Docker

These days, Docker technology is gaining more market and more mind shares among information technology (IT) professionals across the globe. In this chapter, we would like to shed more light on Docker, and show why it is being touted as the next best thing for the impending cloud IT era. In order to make this book relevant to software engineers, we have listed the steps needed for crafting highly usable application-aware containers, registering them in a public registry repository, and then deploying them in multiple IT environments (on-premises as well as off-premises). In this book, we have clearly explained the prerequisites and the most important details of Docker, with the help of all the education and ...

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