Docker: Intro and notes

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What are containers?

completely isolated environment. They can have their own mounts, networks and applications. Docker runs off of lxc containers and provides a high level management interface. Docker containers share the kernal. They can run anything on top of it (even an os) but it will have the same kernel version.

Why do you need it?

Allows for running services that require different versions of prereqs. Allows for cross os compatibility.

Alot of companies and programs have got their software published to docker hub

Install docker:

$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
$ sudo sh get-docker.sh

 sudo usermod -aG docker your-user

Done!

You can check the docker verson using sudo docker version

Nhow we can see if it works by running:

docker pull docker/whalesay

Which pulls a docer image from the previous mentioned docker hub. called Whale say.

sudo docker run docker/whalesay cowsay hello

which looks like this!

root@DocketHost:~/docker/graphhopper# sudo docker run docker/whalesay cowsay hello
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< hello >
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    \
     \
      \
                    ##        .
              ## ## ##       ==
           ## ## ## ##      ===
       /""""""""""""""""___/ ===
  ~~~ {~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~ /  ===- ~~~
       \______ o          __/
        \    \        __/
          \____\______/

now we know docker is working

Run docker containers

Running docker run <name> runs a docker container.

If the image is not found, it will find and pull the docker but the next time, it will use the same image you're already pulled

docker ps will show you info about the docker container.

To see all containers, use -a docker ps -a

Stopping a container

docker stop <name or id>

to remote a docker, docker rm <name or id>

To view a list of images we have on the server, run docker images

to remove images, use docker rmi -f <id>

To run a command on a docker, run docker exec <name> command

Running a docker image in interactive mode is achived using docker run -i container

and to interact with it, use docker run -ti container

Data persistance

In order to ensure that the data persists, you need to map an external folder to the docker container

docker run -V /opt/data:/var/lib/mysql mysql

Create docker Image

Networks in docker

All containers get an internal IP address that other containers can connect to. This is all good and well for internal applications but useless for external applicaitons. In order to access the port and network of the container, we must use the -p command which maps the port to the container

Example:

docker run -p 80:5000 kodekloud/simple-webapp

This maps external port 80 to internal port 5000 Seurprisingly you cant map to the same port the same time.

Docker: Intro and notes

What are containers?

Why do you need it?

Install docker:

Run docker containers

Data persistance

Create docker Image

Networks in docker

Docker compose

Docker concepts in depth

Docker for windows/ mac

Docker swarm

Docker vs k8