add chapter on Docker Machine

slides/intro-fullday.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ chapters:
   - intro/Advanced_Dockerfiles.md
 - - intro/Namespaces_Cgroups.md
   - intro/Copy_On_Write.md
-  - intro/Containers_From_Scratch.md
+  #- intro/Containers_From_Scratch.md
   - intro/Container_Engines.md
   - intro/Orchestration_Overview.md
   - common/thankyou.md

slides/intro/Containers_From_Scratch.md

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Building containers from scratch
 
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+(This is a "bonus section" done if time permits.)

slides/intro/Docker_Machine.md

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 # Managing hosts with Docker Machine
 
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+- Docker Machine is a tool to provision and manage Docker hosts.
+
+- It automates the creation of a virtual machine:
+
+  - locally, with a tool like VirtualBox or VMware;
+
+  - on a public cloud like AWS EC2, Azure, Digital Ocean, GCP, etc.;
+
+  - on a private cloud like OpenStack.
+
+- It can also configure existing machines through an SSH connection.
+
+- It can manage as many hosts as you want, with as many "drivers" as you want.
+
+---
+
+## Docker Machine workflow
+
+1) Prepare the environment: setup VirtualBox, obtain cloud credentials ...
+
+2) Create hosts with `docker-machine create -d drivername machinename`.
+
+3) Use a specific machine with `eval $(docker-machine env machinename)`.
+
+4) Profit!
+
+---
+
+## Environment variables
+
+- Most of the tools (CLI, libraries...) connecting to the Docker API can use ennvironment variables.
+
+- These variables are:
+
+  - `DOCKER_HOST` (indicates address+port to connect to, or path of UNIX socket)
+
+  - `DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY` (indicates that TLS mutual auth should be used)
+
+  - `DOCKER_CERT_PATH` (path to the keypair and certificate to use for auth)
+
+- `docker-machine env ...` will generate the variables needed to connect to an host.
+
+- `$(eval docker-machine env ...)` sets these variables in the current shell.
+
+---
+
+## Host management features
+
+With `docker-machine`, we can:
+
+- upgrade an host to the latest version of the Docker Engine,
+
+- start/stop/restart hosts,
+
+- get a shell on a remote machine (with SSH),
+
+- copy files to/from remotes machines (with SCP),
+
+- mount a remote host's directory on the local machine (with SSHFS),
+
+- ...
+
+---
+
+## The `generic` driver
+
+When provisioning a new host, `docker-machine` executes these steps:
+
+1) Create the host using a cloud or hypervisor API.
+
+2) Connect to the host over SSH.
+
+3) Install and configure Docker on the host.
+
+With the `generic` driver, we provide the IP address of an existing host
+(instead of e.g. cloud credentials) and we omit the first step.
+
+This allows to provision physical machines, or VMs provided by a 3rd
+party, or use a cloud for which we don't have a provisioning API.