Docker for Developers: Develop and run your application with Docker containers using DevOps tools for continuous delivery

Very completed with practical examples, tools and use cases.

I ch bin ganz begeistert.

This is a good book - it's just not what I expected. What I _thought_ I'd get, based on the title, was a hands-on low-level nitty gritty ultra-geek caliber technical tour of all the ins and outs of working with Docker as a developer, in a day-to-day way (i.e. the best way to write docker files for various essential scenarios, the best coding practices, etc.). That's not what this book is. It does contain a bunch of pretty good technical information - but it's much more a guided tour of the entire Docker ecosystem (including a long list of related libs, products and services like Kubernetes, Jenkins, Grafana, Envoy, etc.), than it is a low-level developer guide. That's not bad, it's just not what I expected. It actually does a nice job of introducing just how broad the Docker-centric ecosystem really is, and outlining many of the most popular, useful, and important products/services/libs therein. If anything, it just covers too much breadth, and sacrifices depth as a result. My biggest complaint about this book is that the authors offloaded a TON, and I mean a LOOOOOT, of work to external sources (3rd party docs, etc.). It covers so much ground that if it didn't do that it would be a 900 page monster – but by lazily offloading SO MUCH lifting to external links, the book ends up being just a brief high-level intro to almost 2/3 of the various products and services it introduces - before pointing you to their external docs with a note like, "To learn about [this], go [here] and read [this page]." ... then immediately after the URL on the page they continue with , "...OK, so now that you've learned how to do [that], let's move on to [the next thing]...". In too many cases, this book doesn't actually *teach* you much of anything. It just sorta explains that this product can do this thing, and you can read about it here, and this is why that's important and you should learn and use it in your container app. The authors assume those third parties will explain all you need to know about how their stuff works, and that you'll be resourceful enough to dig thru their external docs to answer any questions you may have, etc. Beyond Docker itself, the book's best coverage is around Kubernetes, Jenkins, and AWS EKS - and these are massively useful and important. But the rest of the products it refers to are, to borrow a term the authors themselves use more than once, a very quick "whistle stop tour." There's plenty of value in this book, and I do recommend it. I just want you to know what it is, and what it is not.

As others have said, this book covers a lot of good material. Unfortunately, the code samples in the Kindle version are poorly formatted, and seem to be missing line breaks, resulting in difficult to read, run-on blobs of text. It's still technically possible to parse and understand the examples, but it's definitely more difficult than it should be. I think it may be due to a recent change in the Kindle app because I don't remember it being this way the first time I read the book, but referring back to it today, I see this problem on read.amazon.com (in Firefox and Chromium), and on the Kindle app for iPad.