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Orchestrating Docker: Manage and Deploy Docker Services to Containerize Applications Efficiently

by Shrikrishna Holla (Author)
3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Pub Ltd (January 31, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783984783
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783984787
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
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Greg
4.0 out of 5 stars great hand on book to learn many aspects of docker
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2015
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The book gives a good overview of docker. How it works. How to build your own docker images. How to auto-build images by linking github to dockerhub. It gets into basic resource management (disk quota, cpu quota, etc). The section I am on now is about linking containers, the disk of one container to another, or the ip of a container to another. This book has given me a good understanding of how docker works.
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Al
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste time and money
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2015
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This is one of the worst written book I ever read. If Amazon have zero rating, this book qualify for it. This book written like a high school student just read some Docker tutorial then written some notes. The Internet Available Docker tutorials is much deeper and better articulated than this one.
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Andrey Gubarev
4.0 out of 5 stars This book is ok.
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015
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This book is ok. Mostly repeats official docker docs and tools docs, but have some interesting recipes. Recomeneded to read.
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David Lee Crites
1.0 out of 5 stars This is not the book you are looking for; move on...
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2015
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Don't bother with this one. Around half of the examples in the text didn't work - using code from the author, mind you. It's an easy read, but you finish not sure if you really learned anything.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Will now be using docker at work
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015
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It gave me a good insight into how I could use docker at work. Would recommend.
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Edward Cheadle
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth a read for the right people
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015
I enjoyed the book. I do understand the negative comments, I thought the book was going to be a bit different from the introduction. What I liked about the book is the wide range of topics discussed in so few pages. I was able to do a little on a lot of different topics. I am very new to docker and and by reading the book I was given a lot the think about and will move on to other books for more in depth information.
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Jascha Casadio
1.0 out of 5 stars A short and poor review of the basic commands of Docker, nothing to do with orchestration.
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015
Docker has undoubtely been one of the key technologies of this 2015. This deserved spotlight resulted in many companies, ranging from huge giants up to hordes of start-ups, investing on it, slowly trying to move their microservices to containers. This also resulted in a huge spike in the demand of professionals able not only to create and deploy images, but also to get complex distributed systems based on containers up and running, working in synergy. While the basic concepts are well covered, both by the official documentation and the many titles that were released this and last year, experienced users are suffering the lack of material covering mid to advanced topics, such as orchestration. With such a title, Orchestrating Docker definitely looks appealing to any DevOps that is seriously interested in deploying and managing complex distributed solutions through containers. Unfortunately, it delivers nothing of that it promises.

I must confess that I was very excited about this book: Mesos, Terraform, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Consul. Like most of the people that had this title on their hands, I was really looking forward to get some serious material about deploying and maintaining some serious self-jealing distributed environment based on containers. The technologies are getting mature and ready for this step. We just need documentation. And some training. Unfortunately, despite the title, this book does not cover at all any of this. But let's dive a little into the details.

Orchestrating Docker is a two hundred pages book, distributed through five chapters. Quite a thin book yes, but two hundred pages can deliver a lot if they are filled with the right quality of content. After a quick first chapter, that chit chats about several topics, including OpenStack, the author takes us into a long review of each and every command supported by the Docker daemon and through which we are magically able to create and run containers. Yay! A couple of notes on this: first of all, this does not provide anything that the official documentation doesn't already. But official documentation apart, there are other introductiory texts that are both more exhaustive and user-friendly. And second, wasn't this a book about orchestration? That is, wasn't it supposed to be about an advanced topic, suggesting the basics were already known to the public?

There is not really much more to say about it. The other chapters briefly touch the topics of security. I must honestly admit that keywords like Consul and etcs do indeed appear throughout the book, but the lines dedicated to them are less than five. Technologies such as Apache Mesos, Kubernetes and Terraform are not even mentioned.

Overall, a misleading title. But even if the title were correct, as an introduction to Docker the book does not deliver. There are by far better choices available. I still have a doubt though: how could this title have so many five stars reviews immediately after its release? Not really worth it, DevOps.

Suggested readings:
The Docker Book: an user friendly, concise introduction to Docker. While it does not cover many advanced topics, it’s by far the best covering the basics.
Docker Hands on: while not helpful to beginners, it offers the reader many advanced topics that can’t be found anywhere else.
Docker: Up and Running: a very good text that focuses on advanced topics, mainly containers security.

As usual, you can find more reviews on my personal blog: http://books.lostinmalloc.com. Feel free to pass by and share your thoughts!
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Michael Bright
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, very complete
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2015
I just finished reading a review copy of this book which I find to be excellent.
I found the book to be fairly comprehensive about Docker basics, building images, orchestration and even how to build Docker itself, and how to integrate Docker into OpenStack (Havana release via the nova driver).
The book is also very well written, it's a pleasure to read.

That said I do have some criticisms of the book, but the book is still excellent overall.
What is really strange is that the first chapter starts describing how to install Docker (*), and then jumps straight into how to integrate into DevStack (an all-in-one developer version of OpenStack) followed by how to build Docker from source from within a Docker container.

Whilst most books tend to start saying how to install Docker I prefer always to refer to the excellent online documentation, but I guess it's OK to detail this as long as there is a reference to the latest online documentation. I'd still tend to put this in an appendix though.

Likewise, and even more so covering how to install Docker under DevStack should really be an appendix and should certainly not be in the first chapter before even covering Docker concepts.
Same remark for building Docker under Docker.
I do actually appreciate the DevStack and Docker building instructions but they should be in appendices, in my view.

OK, despite this curious organization of the books chapters the book is still an excellent read and goes into great detail about Docker basics. Sometimes it feels like a reference manual specifying some docker CLI options without explanation of the terms used. I've been using Docker for over a year now, nevertheless I did learn a few very useful tidbits from this section (in particularly the difference between load/save, import/export and also between ADD/COPY in Dockerfiles).

Often the "reference" section details a command-line option as 'exists since version 1.2" or similar.
It would be a good idea to state what is the baseline Docker version which is being documented as Docker is moving fast, Docker 1.5 should be out this week.

The book is very complete in the examples provided. Whilst I've not tested all the examples they seem to make sense and exercise very many of Dockers capabilities of the docker client, the daemon, the REST api, interacting with Docker hub or a private registry, building images, linking containers and so on.

Chapter 3 covers setting resource limits (CPU share, memory usage, disk usage), mounting and sharing volumes, choosing storage drivers, network configuration, linking containers directly or via the Ambassador pattern.

Chapter 4 covers automation via the REST api, and how to use service discovery with etcd to maintain connectivity across a group of containers dynamically (the Ambassador pattern does this but statically links containers causing the system to malfunction if containers die)

Chapter 4 covers orchestration also, mentioning the newly (December 2014) announced Docker Machine, Docker Swarm and Docker Compose but this was a bit light due to the recent nature of these beta products from Docker.

Chapter 4 terminates discussing security and best practices.
Looks like Chapter 4 could have been split into several chapters, by the way.

Chapter 5 is called "Friends of Docker" and covers Puppet and Chef configuration management tools and the use of apt-cacher. Dokku is then used as an example (it's a mini-PaaS Heroku clone).

Then there is discussion of high-availability and scaling and examples of using CoreOS/etcd (for service discovery) and Fleet.

Overall this is an excellent book with lots of very useful well written content and is possibly the best Docker book out there right now. I recommend it.
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Frank
4.0 out of 5 stars Gutes Buch für die ersten Schritte mit Docker
Reviewed in Germany on April 4, 2015
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Aktuell gibt es noch sehr wenige Bücher zum Thema Docker, aber dieses gehört in die Kategorie "Sehr hilfreich für den Anfang". Ich hatte das Buch in ca. 2 Tagen mit allen Beispielen durch und es hat mir bei meinen ersten Schritten und Tests mit Docker doch sehr geholfen.
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スマイル0円
4.0 out of 5 stars オーケストレーション...ではないですが良書
Reviewed in Japan on February 16, 2015
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Dockerが大流行していますがエンタープライズで使うには課題が多いのも事実。
その中でも必須であり、最も競争が熱い分野がオーケストレーションです。

期待して買ったのですが、、、残念ながらオーケストレーションには
全体の10％程度しかページが割かれていません(etcd + fleet)。

その代わりにDocker単体についての記述は網羅的でオーケストレーションを
考え始めたDocker中級者には知識の整理になると共にリファレンスとしても
良い内容になっています。

非常にアップデートの速いソフトウェアですが現時点での機能を
おさらいし、次の動きへ備えるための良い書籍だと思います。
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