This book was exactly what I was looking for in regards to learning Docker. The beginning chapters gave clear insight into the history of Docker and how it evolved from virtual machines. I got a good sense of the purpose of Docker and why so many people are excited about it.
Where this book was great for me was in the 6th chapter where the author shows how to create a simple web app in Docker. For awhile, I've been trying to deploy some Python code online and I was not sure how. This chapter was coincidentally programmed in Python using the Flask framework. I cloned the github resource for chapter 6, and plugged in some of my code. Within less than an hour I had my code running on localhost the way I wanted!
The author is extremely knowledgeable about Docker and takes the time to point out many gotchas along the way in footnotes. I appreciated this attention to detail. He also evaluates a lot of addons and tools that work with Docker, and the trade-offs were presented well explaining exactly why you would use one tool over another. At points he mentions which technologies are still evolving, and where to check for updates.
The last few chapters in this book were heavily into the networking side of things. Some of the material was quite advanced information about production systems.
One minor issue with this book is that there are quite a few typos. I noticed one spelled "oen", and chapter spelled "chpater" in the book. Also, there was one place where "was were" was in a sentence, along with a few sentences not starting with capitals... I was seriously wondering how a spell checker did not catch these. I am still giving a 5-star rating though because the author's examples happened to be in the programming language I am using with an example to do exactly what I wanted. Additionally, I am happy to see how recent the information in this book is, even if it means there will be typos.
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