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Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

You're reading from   Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers Scale, deploy, and monitor multi-container applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468390
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Docker 2. Networking and Persistent Storage FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Microservices 4. Creating Java Microservices 5. Creating Images with Java Applications 6. Running Containers with Java Applications 7. Introduction to Kubernetes 8. Using Kubernetes with Java 9. Working with the Kubernetes API 10. Deploying Java on Kubernetes in the Cloud 11. More Resources

Dockerfile instructions

We will begin with the instruction that every Dockerfile must have at the top, the FROM instruction.

FROM

This is the first instruction in the Dockerfile. It sets the base image for every subsequent instruction coming next in the file. The syntax for the FROM instruction is straightforward. It's just:

FROM <image>, or FROM <image>:<tag>, or FROM <image>@<digest>

The FROM instruction takes a tag or digest as a parameter. If you decide to skip them, Docker will assume you want to build your image from the latest tag. Be aware that latest will not always be the latest version of the image you want to build upon. The latest tag is kind of a special one. Also, it may not...

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