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You're reading from Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x Everything you need to know about containerizing your applications and running them in production

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788997027

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. What Are Containers and Why Should I Use Them?

2. Setting up a Working Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Containers

4. Creating and Managing Container Images

5. Data Volumes and System Management

6. Distributed Application Architecture

7. Single-Host Networking

8. Docker Compose

9. Orchestrators

10. Introduction to Docker Swarm

11. Zero Downtime Deployments and Secrets

12. Introduction to Kubernetes

13. Deploying, Updating, and Securing an Application with Kubernetes

14. Running a Containerized App in the Cloud

1. Assessment

2. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Deploying and using Docker EE on AWS

In this section, we're going to install Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) version 3.0. UCP is part of Docker's enterprise offering and supports the two orchestration engines, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. UCP can be installed in the cloud or on-premise. Even hybrid clouds are possible with UCP.

To try this, you need a valid license for Docker EE or you can claim a free test license on Docker Store.

Provisioning the infrastructure

Create an auto scaling group (ASG) in AWS using the Ubuntu 16.04 server AMI. Configure the ASG to contain three instances of size t2.xlarge. Here is the result of this:

ASG on AWS ready for Docker EE

Once the ASG has been created, and before we continue, we need to open the SG a bit (of which our ASG is part of) so that we can access it through SSH from our laptop and also so that the VMs can communicate with each other. Navigate to your SG and add two new inbound rules, shown here: