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Who are we?

What do we want?

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Things I planned to cover

  • Why Docker
  • Installation
  • Basics of docker
  • Containers in depth
    • Networks
    • Volumes

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Things I planned to cover

  • Docker-Compose
  • Excercise with own projects
  • Useful tricks
  • Pitfalls when using Docker

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Why Docker?

  • Reproducibly installing dependencies
  • Development very close to production
  • Easily deploying apps
  • Ecosystem of useful, shared components
  • Little overhead

Installation

##[Fit] docs.docker.com/install/

##[Fit] docs.docker.com/compose/install/

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           18.09.2
 API version:       1.39
 Go version:        go1.10.8
 Git commit:        6247962
 Built:             Sun Feb 10 04:12:39 2019
 OS/Arch:           darwin/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          18.09.2
  API version:      1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.10.6
  Git commit:       6247962
  Built:            Sun Feb 10 04:13:06 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.23.2, build 1110ad01

Docker Basics

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What is an image?

  • Blueprint
  • Contains everything necessary to run an application
  • A layered, read-only File System

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Why layers?

  • Enable caching of shared requirements
  • Each layer has a globally unique id
  • only changed layers need to be pushed/pulled

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What is a container?

  • Contains application state
  • Thin read/write layer

Each layer is a File System tree

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Reading a file

go down the layered File System, take first occurence

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Writing a file

Write in the containers read/write layer

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Changing an existing file

create copy of read-only file in read/write layer first

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[Fit] An Image can be reused in multiple containers

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Example

clone github.com/alexmorten/docker-example

Dockerfile

# Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM python:2.7-slim

# Set the working directory to /app
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app
# ignore files specified in .dockerignore
COPY . /app

# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org -r requirements.txt

# Make port 80 available to the world outside this container
EXPOSE 80

# Define environment variable
ENV NAME World

# Run app.py when the container launches
CMD ["python", "app.py"]

FROM <image>

Specifies what image to use as a base

COPY <host path> <image path>

Copy file/directory from host directory to directory in image layer

RUN <command>

Runs the given command in a container

All changes to the filesystem are stored in a new image layer

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Build the image

docker build -t example-app .

  • -t tags the image with a nice name
  • use . as the build context directory -> the host root path used for COPY

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Create a running container of the image

docker run --name app -p 4000:80 example-app

  • --name gives the container a nice name
  • -p maps the host port 4000 to the container port 80
  • go to localhost:4000 in your browser

Cleanup

  • ctrl + c cancel process running in terminal
  • docker ps --all to see all existing containers
  • docker start app to start container again
  • docker stop app to stop container

Cleanup

  • docker rm app remove container
  • docker run --rm ... would have automatically removed the container after it is stopped -> especially helpful for stateless containers

Containers run in isolated Networks

-> no calls to things running on the host -> no calls to other containers

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[Fit]... but our app wants to talk to Redis?!

  • containers can share networks

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How?

  • docker network create my-network
  • docker run --name app -p 4000:80 --network my-network example-app
  • docker run --name redis --network my-network redis
  • go to localhost:4000 in your browser

When calling specific containers

Use the containers name as a host name

redis = Redis(host="redis", db=0, socket_connect_timeout=2, socket_timeout=2)

Isn't this a bit cumbersome?

How do I remember all of these commands?

[Fit] Docker-Compose to the rescue

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[Fit] Define your setup in a docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:
  app:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "4000:80"
  redis:
    image: redis
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"
    volumes:
      - "./redis-data:/data"
    command: "redis-server --appendonly yes"

docker-compose up

Will handle everything:

  • creates the containers app and redis
  • containers are part of the same network
  • containers have the correct host ports bound

What is

volumes:
  - "./redis-data:/data"

about?

Without Volumes

Disk writes happen in the containers read/write layer

-> Slower than normal writes to disk

Remove the container / Update the image

-> all data gone

With Volumes

You can bind a host directory/file inside a container

-> No overhead in writing -> Data persists after a container was destroyed

Without Docker-Compose

docker run ... -v "$(pwd)/redis-data:/data" redis

Questions so far?

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Exercise

  1. Pick one of your projects
    • ideally with some kind of Database
    • or just use this
  2. Write a Dockerfile for each component
  3. Write a docker-compose.yaml including all services

Leads

  • What is my app supposed to do?
  • Is there an appropriate Base Image?
  • What dependencies do I need?

Useful things

docker run -d ...

Run docker container in background

Useful things

docker history <container name>

Examine size of each layer of the container

Useful things

docker exec -it <container name> /bin/bash

Get an interactive terminal inside a running container

Useful things

Multistage builds

# use the golang dev image to compile binary
FROM golang:1.11 as builder
WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/alexmorten/mhist
COPY . .
RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -o mhist main/main.go

# use the stripped down alpine image
FROM alpine:latest
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates
RUN mkdir app
# Copy the binary from the builder stage
COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/alexmorten/mhist/mhist /app
WORKDIR /app
CMD ["./mhist"]
EXPOSE 6666 6667

15MB tiny image

[Fit] Pitfalls when using Docker

Docker for mac

Runs Linux inside a VM

-> --network host will refer to the VM

-> carries performance overhead of a VM + Docker

Tiny Images

Alpine images are really tiny

Normally localhost is an alias for 127.0.0.1

Alpine images don't have that alias

Tiny Images

Alpine images are really tiny

Normally the OS contains ca-certificates to validate TLS certificates from servers for https calls

-> ... you should RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates

That's it!

Thank you!

Links

Docker Installation: docs.docker.com/install/ docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Example repo github.com/alexmorten/docker-example

Slides: docker.alexmorten.info (PDF) github.com/alexmorten/docker-workshop-presentation