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Show HN: My first book: Orchestrating Docker

by shrikrishna on 1/26/15, 4:32 PM with 7 comments

by chatmasta on 1/26/15, 5:10 PM
Congrats on publishing.
Since this is your first book, and you have no immediately obvious prior published authority on the matter of Docker, I recommend you improve your Amazon author profile.
Currently I see the book and think, "this looks good!" But then I ask, "wait who is this guy, and why does he know so much about Docker?" Your author profile should answer that question, but right now it's just a brief picture of your personality. Sell yourself. Explain why you are the best person to teach me about Docker.
Always establish your authority. :)

by sciurus on 1/26/15, 5:04 PM

My first though on reading the title was "How can you write a book about docker and orchestration now? The tech is too immature and evolving too quickly." From the table of contents, it looks like the book doesn't actually focus on orchestration.

  1: UNBOXING DOCKER
  Installing Docker
  OpenStack
  Inception: Build Docker in Docker
  Verifying Installation
  Useful tips
  Summary

  2: DOCKER CLI AND DOCKERFILE
  Docker terminologies
  Docker commands
  Running your own project
  Dockerfile
  Docker workflow - pull-use-modify-commit-push
  Automated Builds
  Summary

  3: CONFIGURING DOCKER CONTAINERS
  Constraining resources
  Managing data in containers with volumes
  Configuring Docker to use a different storage driver
  Configuring Docker's network settings
  Linking containers
  Summary

  4: AUTOMATION AND BEST PRACTICES
  Docker remote API
  Injecting processes into containers with the Docker execute command
  Service discovery
  Security
  Summary

  5: FRIENDS OF DOCKER
  Using Docker with Chef and Puppet
  Setting up an apt-cacher
  Setting up your own mini-Heroku
  Setting up a highly available service
  Summary

I found the table of contents at https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/orchestrat...