A Practical Guide to Docker and Microservice Deployments

Explore a practical guide to Docker and microservice deployments in this 52-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Learn from Davide Fiorentino's journey in building stable and reliable environments for web and standalone applications. Discover strategies for dockerizing applications, managing images, configuring systems, and leveraging experimental features. Gain insights into splitting monoliths from architectural and deployment perspectives, and understand how to effectively communicate with stakeholders. Address common challenges such as vLAN issues, network connectivity problems, and misconceptions about Docker images. Ideal for system administrators, developers, and DevOps professionals, this talk covers topics including virtual machines, Dockerfiles, bash commands, image building and running, registry management, Gradle, testing, and enabling experimental features. Benefit from Fiorentino's 20 years of Java experience and data science background as he shares solutions to help you avoid common pitfalls in Docker and microservice implementations.