What this book covers

Chapter 1, Making the Case for Docker Enterprise, covers the background and platform landscape of the enterprise containers space and where Docker Enterprise fits.

Chapter 2, Docker Enterprise – an Architectural Overview, provides an architectural overview, including budget, benefits, features, and product structure.

Chapter 3, Getting Started – Docker Enterprise Proof of Concept, walks through the setup of a simple PoC cluster, containerizing a simple .NET application, and deploying the application to the PoC cluster.

Chapter 4, Prepare the Docker Enterprise Pilot Cluster, explores important concepts related to setting up a Docker Enterprise pilot cluster and provides important details of a bare-metal installation using CentOS 7.

Chapter 5, Prepare and Deploy a Docker Enterprise Pilot Application, reviews the post-installation configuration of UCP and DTR, describes the containerization an old Java Wiki application, and concludes with the deployment of the Wiki application to our new the pilot cluster.

Chapter 6, Design and Pilot a Docker Enterprise CI Pipeline, describes distributed application design concepts, the containerized development process, and building containers with a Docker CI/CD pipeline.

Chapter 7, Pilot Docker Enterprise Platform Monitoring and Logging, introduces centralized logging and monitoring for our pilot platform and applications.

Chapter 8, First Application in Production with Docker Enterprise, cover the first big step on the production journey, where we present the software supply chain all way to a production cluster.

Chapter 9, Important Docker Enterprise Production Topics, present a final round-up of important Docker Enterprise topics for consideration in production environments.

Chapter 10, More on Kubernetes with Docker Enterprise, walks through the deployment of a Kubernetes application on your Docker Enterprise cluster.

Chapter 11, Taking the Docker Enterprise Platform into the Future, looks at what is in store for your Docker Enterprise cluster.