The Docker Cookbook provides over 130 recipes to help developers, operators, and IT professionals work with Docker to package and deploy distributed applications. The book covers managing containers, sharing images, networking containers, advanced topics like configuration and development, and deploying multi-container apps on Kubernetes. It also discusses tools for deployment, integration, discovery, orchestration, and accessing Docker hosts in cloud environments. The 346-page book is written by Sébastien Goasguen and published by O'Reilly Media in 2015.