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Introduction To Docker
 Contents

Docker
1 Understanding Docker and Containerized
Applications.

Docker CLI
2 Getting started with using Docker CLI and
working with containerized applications

Dockerizing an Application
3 Dockerize your own application in a custom
docker image

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1. Docker

Understanding Docker and

Containerized Applications.
 Virtual Machines

● Isolates applications and allocates resources to

run that application

● VMs can be shared as images

● Aren’t dependent on the Host OS

● Multiple VMs can be run simultaneously using a

hypervisor

Image Source: docker.com

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 Docker Containers

● Standard unit of software

● Packages code and dependencies
● Can be shared as Docker Images
● Multiple containers can be run simultaneously
● Portable - Can be used with any OS
● Lightweight - Uses the host operating system
● Secure - Strong default isolation features
● Sometimes used with VMs

Image Source: docker.com

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 Microservices

● Breaks large applications down into

smaller executable components
● Easy to maintain and test
● Loosely coupled and can be deployed
independently
● Can be combined with serverless
architecture (AWS Fargate)

Image Source: hackernoon.com

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 Why Use Docker

● Develop applications that work on any OS

● Easy to share applications among teams
● Easy to scale across multiple servers
● Large applications can be broken into multiple
containers - one for each microservice
● Great solution for Cloud Computing
● Big community and library of Docker Images

Image Source: docker.com

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 Serverless

● Removes Dependency on Infrastructure

● Allows developers to focus on application
development
● Microservices can be decoupled with different
cloud services
● Usually more cost effective
● Probably covered in more depth in a Cloud
Computing class

Image Source: aws.amazon.com

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Clicker Quiz
Which of the following is an advantage of using Docker
Containers over Virtual Machines?

a) Multiple containers can be run on the same machine

b) Uses the Host OS
c) Can be shared as images
d) all of the above
Clicker Quiz
Which of the following is an advantage of using Docker
Containers over Virtual Machines?

a) Multiple containers can be run on the same machine

b) Uses the Host OS
c) Can be shared as images
d) all of the above
2. Using Docker CLI

Working with Gitlab to work in a

DevOps environment with our existing
Github Repositories
 Install Docker Engine

Install Docker Engine

• Docker Engine is available on

a variety of Linux platforms,
macOS and Windows 10
through Docker Desktop
 Pull An Image

There are many publicly available images that we can use to work with Docker.
The example below pulls a hello-world image using the docker pull command:

[ ~ ]docker pull hello-world

Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
0e03bdcc26d7: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:31b9c7d48790f0d8c50ab433d9c3b7e17666d6993084c002c2ff1ca09b96391d
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest
docker.io/library/hello-world:latest

[ ~ ]docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
hello-world latest bf756fb1ae65 12 months ago 13.3kB

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 Create A Container

To create a container from an image we can use the docker create command

[ ~ ]docker create hello-world

2ffd5f2c5a7562fbf1d7b89a14c11a52e5843dd7938f380a8cd53f3952da99de

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 Run A Container

To run a container we can use the docker container start command to start a
container. The -i runs the container interactively and allows us to see the output

[ ~ ] docker container start -i 2ffd5f2c5a7562fbf1d7…

Hello from Docker!

This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

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 Run An Image

There is a shortcut for building a container from an image and running it with the
docker run command. This will create a new container for an image and run it:

[ ~ ] docker run hello-world

Hello from Docker!

This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

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 List Images

To see what images are already installed on your machine you can use the
docker image ls command. We can see our hello-world image below:

[ ~ ]docker image ls
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ubuntu latest f63181f19b2f 13 hours ago 72.9MB
hello-world latest bf756fb1ae65 12 months ago 13.3kB

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 List Containers

To list the containers that we have built, we can use the docker container ls command.
The -a flag allows us to see both stopped and running containers. There are two containers
below, one that was built with the docker create command and the other that was built with
docker run:

[ ~ ]docker container ls –a

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

5017fd2b94c2 hello-world "/hello" 7 minutes ago Exited (0) 7 minutes ago stoic_nobel
5f0cea57eacf ubuntu "bash" 10 minutes ago Exited (127) 8 minutes ago condescending_neumann
2ffd5f2c5a75 hello-world "/hello" 14 minutes ago Exited (0) 13 minutes ago hungry_mclaren

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 Running Interactively
Running containers interactively allows you to run commands inside the container if it
supports it. We can use the openjdk image that we used before:

[ ~ ]docker run -it openjdk

Unable to find image 'openjdk:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/openjdk
a73adebe9317: Pull complete
8b73bcd34cfe: Pull complete
1227243b28c4: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:7ada0d840136690ac1099ce3172fb02787bbed83462597e0e2c9472a0a63dea5
Status: Downloaded newer image for openjdk:latest
Jan 21, 2021 4:48:58 PM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$1 run
INFO: Created user preferences directory.
| Welcome to JShell -- Version 15.0.2
| For an introduction type: /help intro

jshell> System.out.println(”hello world");

Hello world

This allows us to execute java commands line by line in a Java shell

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 List Running Processes

To see what containers are currently running, we can use the docker ps command. This
is useful when you are running containers in the background.

[ ~ ]docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
55e4a7c3ddcc openjdk "jshell" 11 seconds ago Up 10 seconds affectionate_kowalevski

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 Interactive shell

[ ~ ] docker run -it ubuntu bash

Unable to find image 'ubuntu:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/ubuntu
83ee3a23efb7: Pull complete
db98fc6f11f0: Pull complete
f611acd52c6c: Pull complete
Digest:
sha256:703218c0465075f4425e58fac086e09e1de5c340b12976ab9eb8ad26615c3715
Status: Downloaded newer image for ubuntu:latest
root@5f0cea57eacf:/#
Clicker Quiz
How can you run a container?

a) docker container start [ContainerID]

b) docker run [ContainerID]
c) docker run [ImageID]
d) none of the above
Clicker Quiz
How can you run a container?

a) docker container start [ContainerID]

b) docker run [ContainerID]
c) docker run [ImageID]
d) none of the above
3. Dockerize An
Application

Dockerize your own application in a

custom docker image
 Revisiting the Calculator TestRepo

Let’s dockerize the code in the repository

we created in Lecture 6. It has a calculator
class and two JUnit tests for add and
subtract.

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Adding A Dockerfile

To create a custom docker image. We need

to create a Dockerfile. The dockerfile
specifies how our image should be built.

Dockerfile

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Dockerfile Syntax

● From - The base image to use

● Run - Runs commands when building
the docker image
● Workdir - Specifies the directory that
commands are run from
● User - Switches users
● Copy - Copies Files
● CMD - Runs commands when
running the container
Dockerfile

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Dockerfile Explained

1. Use the OpenJDK image to have a pre-

configured java environment
2. Add a new user “ojdk” that we will be
using for executing scripts
3. Create a directory that will contain our
files and give permission to our user
4. Change the working directory to the
directory we created
5. Copy the java and junit files
6. Switch to user ojdk
7. Compile all of our code
8. Copy files to the working directory and Dockerfile
give permissions to ojdk
9. Run all tests
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 Build A Docker Image

To build a docker image using a Dockerfile we can use the docker image build
command and provide it the directory where the Dockerfile exists. The --tag
option allows us to name and tag the docker image.

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 Run Our Custom Image

We can use the docker run command to run our image and we can see that our
tests are being run:

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 Run Interactively

We can use docker run -it to run our image interactively and open a bash
shell in our working directory:

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Docker Compose File

Docker Compose files can be used to run

multiple services at once and is great once
you have many microservices as part of
your application. For our project we create
a single service calculator that
● is built using a custom Dockerfile
● tagged with the name calculator docker-compose.yml
● restarts unless it is stopped

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 Run Docker Compose

To run our docker compose file, we use the docker-compose up command. This
builds all images and and runs and containers.

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 Stop Containers

The calculator container will keep restarting unless its stopped. To stop all
services, we can use the docker-compose down command:

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 Clean Up

To remove all unused docker resources, we can use the docker system prune
command with the --all flag:

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Clicker Quiz
What’s the difference between the RUN and CMD commands
in the Dockerfile?

a) CMD is executed when images are being built while

RUN is executed when containers are started
b) RUN is executed when images are being built while
CMD is executed when containers are started
c) There is no difference between RUN and CMD
d) There is no difference between RUN and CMD unless
the container is started interactively
Clicker Quiz
What’s the difference between the RUN and CMD commands
in the Dockerfile?

a) CMD is executed when images are being built while

RUN is executed when containers are started
b) RUN is executed when images are being built while
CMD is executed when containers are started
c) There is no difference between RUN and CMD
d) There is no difference between RUN and CMD unless
the container is started interactively