From Docker to
Production
Chris Tankersley
@dragonmantank
ZendCon 2016, October 2016
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Subliminal Advertisement
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Considerations
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How does your app handle storage?
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What does your build process look like?
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How well does your app handle scaling?
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Does it make sense?
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The Build Process
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Start Small
• Build your application
• Run composer
• Run npm/bower
• Build JS/CSS
• Use the compiled output to build an image with docker build
• Push full image to private registry
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docker build
• Additional options to look at
• -f, --file – Specify a different filename for the Dockerfile
• --no-cache – Don’t use a cached layer
• --pull – Always pull a new version of the image
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Sample usage
docker build 
--no-cache 
–f docker/php/phpserver.dockerfile 
–t prod_php /opt/builds/20161010
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phpserver.dockerfile
FROM php:fpm
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql
COPY ./ /var/www
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Docker Compose
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Very Good for Small Deployments
• Can be used to augment your dev environment
• Works well with Docker Machine
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Create a machine
docker-machine create --driver digitalocean 
--digital-ocean-access-token [token] 
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Switch to the remote node
• Run docker-machine env zendcon2016
& "C:Program
FilesDockerDockerResourcesbindocker-
machine.exe" env zendcon2016 | Invoke-Expression
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Set up docker-compose
• Docker Compose allows multiple config files with -f
• Have a base docker-compose.yml for Production
• Add a secondary one for Development
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version: '2'
volumes:
mysqldata:
driver: local
services:
nginx:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: ./nginx.dockerfile
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
phpserver:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: ./phpserver.dockerfile
working_dir: /var/www/public
mysqlserver:
image: mysql
environment:
[redacted]
volumes:
- mysqldata:/var/lib/mysql
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docker-compose.yml
version: '2'
volumes:
mysqldata:
driver: local
services:
nginx:
image: nginx
volumes:
- ./output_dev:/var/www/public:ro
- ./app/nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
- ./ssl:/etc/nginx/ssl/
phpserver:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: ./phpserver.dockerfile
working_dir: /var/www/public
volumes:
- ./app:/var/www/
- ./vendor:/var/www/vendor
mysqlserver:
image: mysql
environment:
[redacted]
volumes:
- mysqldata:/var/lib/mysql
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docker-compose.dev.yml
When doing development
docker-compose 
–f docker-compose.yml 
–f docker-compose.dev.yml 
up -d
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When doing a deployment
docker-compose up -d
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Other Alternative – Variable Substitution
• Docker Compose allows variable substitution inside the file
• Wrap variables in ${}
• image: ${DEPLOY_VERSION}_php
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When doing a deployment
docker build –f […] –t 20161010_php /opt/builds/20161010
DEPLOY_VERSION=20161010 docker-compose up -d
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Rancher
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Rancher and RancherOS
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Manages your Containers
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Manages your Hosts
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Allows you to monitor containers
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Allows you to manage your applications
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Allows you to deploy your applications
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Allows you to deploy your applications
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Supports Docker Compose
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Blue-Green Deployments
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Router
App v1 App v2
Blue-Green Deployments
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Router
App v3 App v2
Blue-Green Deployments
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Router
App v3 App v2
Add rancher/server to the master
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docker run -d 
--restart=always 
-p 8080:8080 
–name=rancher 
rancher/server
Add rancher/agent to nodes
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docker run -d 
--privileged 
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock 
rancher/agent:v0.7.9 
http://192.168.99.100:8080/v1/scripts/[hash]
All Done!
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Deploying with Rancher CLI
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What is it?
• Rancher has an API!
• Small executable that interacts with Rancher API
• Kind of like a custom docker-compose
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Get an API Key
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Get an API Key
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Download Rancher CLI
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Export Stack Config
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Two Config Files
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docker-compose.yml
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Deploy Script
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ACCESS_KEY="C4F407CE1D8C59EB53BE"
SECRET="daNENHR241Jzm5Z9iw6VsujD9hWfjHWrDzkKmKiA"
RANCHER_URL="http://192.168.99.100:8080"
./rancher-compose --secret-key=${SECRET} --access-key=${ACCESS_KEY} --url=${RANCHER_URL} --
file=docker-compose.yml --rancher-file=rancher-compose.yml -p phptest up --upgrade -d
Edit and Deploy
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Edit and Deploy
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Finish Upgrade
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Thank You!
• Software Engineer for InQuest
• Author of “Docker for Developers”
• https://leanpub.com/dockerfordevs
• Co-Host of “Jerks Talk Games”
• http://jerkstalkgames
• http://ctankersley.com
• chris@ctankersley.com
• @dragonmantank
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From Docker to Production - ZendCon 2016