Concerns About Creating a Docker Container With Optional Flags

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Some online Docker literature suggests creating a new Docker container (e.g., the “docker run” command) with these two options:

–net=host –privileged=true

There are some caveats with these flags.  First, if you use them, within your container you can make changes to the Docker server itself.*  For some applications, this defeats Docker’s purpose.  Secondly, if the application you run in Docker becomes compromised, the entire host could be vulnerable to an attack through the Docker container.* 

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How Do You Copy Files into a Docker Container from the Server’s Command Line?

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Docker is itself a dependency resolution tool.  It is a container that allows a DevOps engineer to prepare one-time an OS environment with nuanced dependencies and configurations for other packages to be installed.

Leveraging the efficiency of a configuration management tool (such as Ansible, CFEngine, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack) can empower DevOps engineering.  It can also necessitate using duplicative deployments in different environments (development, quality assurance, staging, and production).  Having a backup plan for disaster recovery is also important. 

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How to Handle “Failed to connect to the Docker daemon” message in Linux

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To see if Docker has started, do this command:
ps -ef | grep -i docker
If that returns only a service for the grep itself, then Docker is not running.   Occasionally the Docker service won’t start through traditional methods.  But some users have found that this command will work reliably:
docker daemon &
The “&” allows for the next prompt to return.  This method is explicit to new users of Docker too. 

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Containerization Has Its Advantages Over Virtualization

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Containers, such as Docker, communicate to each other through a shared kernel.  Guest virtual machines communicate to each other through the hypervisor or host operating system.  Containers enjoy faster communication as staying within a shared kernel allows for more rapid communication than leaving a virtual machine and going out to a hypervisor (or host operating system) to communicate with another virtual machine.  Containers allow for sequestration of processes and fewer operating systems licenses compared to having a comparable solution with virtual machines. 

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