Using Docker

Developing and Deploying Software with Containers

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Docker has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the world of IT. In just a few years, it has gone from being a small, open source project to being top-of-mind for CIOs at the world's largest enterprises. We recently surveyed the broad community of NGINX users, who run more than 165 million sites around the world, and found that a full two-thirds of them are investigating or already using containers in some way.

Of course, adopting a new technology like Docker is easier said than done. Using Docker provides a wealth of practical guidance on incorporating Docker into your full software development lifecycle. The final stages of the lifecycle - integrating Docker into your CI/CD workflows and ultimately deploying into production - can be particularly challenging. The chapters provided in this free ebook excerpt lead you through these complex and critical stages.

Once your containerized application is running in production, you face a whole host of new challenges - not the least of which is providing a stable entrypoint for your clients to connect to. Clients can't directly connect to dynamic endpoints like containers. This is where Nginx come into play.

If you are looking to deploy Docker-based applications, you need reverse proxies that are stable, easy to use, and reliable, like Nginx. Whether you want to perform essential services such as load balancing, caching, and rate limiting, or simply reduce complexity with DNS-based service discovery, Nginx help eliminate the need for manual work and provide application owners one less thing to worry about.

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