Docker Deep Dive
by Nigel Poulton · Nigel Poulton
Covers the Docker engine end to end: images, containers, the daemon architecture, networking, volumes, Swarm orchestration, and stacks. Readers finish able to build images, run multi-container applications, and explain what happens beneath common Docker commands.
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