Top 8 Docker Best Practices for using Docker in Production

8 Docker Production Best Practices to improve security, reduce the image size and improve build time
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Docker adoption rises constantly, but not everyone is using Docker according to the best practices.
So in this video I want to show you 8 ways you can use docker in a right way in your projects to improve security, optimize the image size and take advantage of some of the useful Docker features and also write cleaner and more maintainable Dockerfiles.
▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - BP 1: Use official and verified Docker Images as Base Image
1:13 - BP 2: Use Specific Docker Image Versions
2:12 - BP 3: Use Small-Sized Official Images
4:35 - BP 4: Optimize Caching Image Layers
10:09- BP 5: Use .dockerignore file
10:55 - BP 6: Make use of Multi-Stage Builds
14:15 - BP 7: Use the Least Privileged User
16:06 - BP 8: Scan your Images for Security Vulnerabilities
17:50 - Wrap Up
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[@udhaykumar9853]

Hello Nana 👋 thanks for sharing 👍

[@amolsurvase7507]

Thank you Nana ..!! Best video for docker best practice explanation .

[@Amit-qv8cp]

Nice explanation 👍

[@ayencoscolfield3312]

Always win me over with her charisma ,quality display of intellect and explanations on topical issues, this is another excellent work. Thanks Nana you are easily my champion

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks so much for your nice words!

[@pedroansilva]

I love the way you present your content in such a concise, but technically accurate manner. Congratulations and thank you for sharing Nana.

[@prayagsingh03]

The way you explained everything in this video is not just amazing but super easy to understand too. Thank you so much for this wonderful video. You are awesome.

[@rusasd1]

Awesome video! I spent tons of hours on the official documentario about caching layers and I couldn't figure out how it works, now you made me understand in three minutes, I love you!

[@anuragbapat2222]

Thank you Nana! Never missed any of your videos on Docker or Kubernetes. You are one of the best out there!

[@koenbrink]

One thing I would like to add about the caching is that it can sometimes screw over your buiild. It is therefore actually advised by Docker to always test your Dockerfile with the --no-cache flag every once in a while (for example with Github Actions or automatated build testing, a good idea would be to use --no-cache) in case you are for example building external files. In that case, a layer like "git clone ..." can be cached, but if the files in that repository change, it will still use the cached layer because the command did not change. Great video as always

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for sharing!

[@MateuszCholewka]

Good point! The alternative solution is to use the version references, the same as specifying a docker image tag. For example, when you clone something you should specify a tag or commit hash. Same for installing something with apt or apk, you can specify the version of the package. In this case, you need to manually manage to update all your dependencies, but you have more control over that. If you update something, the command will be changed, and docker will rebuild the cache. That will also avoid situations when something works differently for a few developers because some of them use the old cache, and some of them built their images from scratch.

[@koenbrink]

@@MateuszCholewka yep, that would actually be even better. That would also be more inline with the points in this video about 'always specifying a version number'. Thanks for that!

[@syskiessistemasit7448]

Hi Nana!! Your videos are always a huge contribution! The way you detail the topics is fantastic! applause for your channel! At some point it would be good, best practices for docker-compose, you are well nana greetings!

[@JesseSteinfort]

This video is fantastic. The tips go from basic to advanced so don't stop just because it seems like the tips are common sense. I'm in the middle of my docker journey and have one application in production right now. I found these tips to be useful and include things that I need to implement in my existing app and in others in the future. Thank you for this video.

[@sachinpandey8003]

Another great video!! Always learn a lot from your videos!! You really do a great job of simply explaining core concepts!

[@AfmpJR]

You did it great. Thank you for sharing

[@sgrhr024]

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[@CHITUS]

I had no Idea about changes in previous layers breaking the caching of the following layers! Excellent video

[@iamachs]

Amazing work mate, thank you so much for making this video, all the best to you, and Stay Strong!

[@remyzandwijk]

Once again, very useful and high-quality content. Thanks Nana! I have a question: could you tell us some more about the tools you are using to create these videos? In particular, I am interested in what software you use to create the animations and such.

[@symbally]

Very good recommendations explained concisely; I shared this with my team halfway through watching, love it

[@Das_KBob]

I am surprised that nobody mentioned docker secrets and sensitive data in general; You should NOT run commands that have passwords/api tokens as parameters (as they would show up in the history) and you should also NEVER copy sensitive unnecessary files (e.g. certificates for code signing) into an image during build, as people can revert to that layer and get it out of there; mount a host directory instead and read it from there, this way it never ends up in a layer.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for sharing Niklas!

[@morsikpl]

Because Docker Secrets are part of Docker Swarm, and this video is not about Docker Swarm ;)

[@Das_KBob]

​@@morsikpl Touché;)

[@r0zemary]

@@morsikpl Secrets still work in regular compose, just not much of a point compared to mounting them (which *is* what the original comment said, btw 😅)

[@crosticox]

Another great and simple digestible topic. You rock

[@royston1928]

I had no Idea about changes in previous layers breaking the caching of the following layers! Excellent video 👍

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Thank you so much! You helped me a lot with leaning Docker and Kubernetes XD

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Great presentation and well explained! Keep it up Nana!

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[@thomash.8297]

Thank you Nana! Perfect like always.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks so much Tom!

[@alifiroozizamani7782]

What a awesome tips! Thanks a lot nana🙏

[@ovidiuc4]

Great video. A similar one for development setup would be awesome.

[@suassouf]

Awesome. Extremely useful best practices summary. And it is so clearly explained that if you don´t understand it, probably you have to think in changing your career.

[@roman445]

Your videos are excellent, Nana, thanks a lot.

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Thanks Nana again from Argentina!! Very Helpful content. Regards!

[@joelamks]

Nana always let me learn something really materials. Thanks

[@hariprakashpalanisamy923]

Thank you so much, the video was helpful and informative.

[@IceyBoy47]

Great video, would love to see others like this one for other technologies

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for your comment, good to know! :)

[@lossurdo]

Great content! You have good didactics and a very good slides and examples.

[@mehdiboujid8761]

One of the best informative docker videos.

[@kayderl]

Thanks for sharing. Your channel is an amazing resource.

[@ta2742]

Great explanation Nana, thank you!

[@dmitryscherbakov3353]

Thanks a lot! It is very useful for beginners.

[@kunalbagwe6091]

As always, valuable content created. Thank you Nana for making topics so much easy to grasp. Will it be possible to create a video on Docker in Docker concept, it will help alot. Thanks Once Again.

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Thank you Nana , another awsome work

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[@dnzkrblt]

Very useful information about Docker. Thank you Nana.

[@yuriytimerkhanov1228]

This is brilliant, huge thanks 😊

[@jubinben4538]

Thank you for the easy explaination!

[@shaileshsawant3285]

Thanks for sharing best practices

[@Ninja-Magician]

Really helpul, nicely explained things, Loved the video... :)

[@teliat6242]

Really good explaination and voice tone 100% clear and perfect.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for the feedback :)

[@teliat6242]

@@TechWorldwithNana Wish you continuously touch with more and more successful.

[@NoDoubt747]

These are great videos, thank you!!

[@dimitrisfilippou]

Thank you so much!

[@ManhPham-fh6on]

excellent explanation for caching layer. Ty!

[@AdnanAmmanUllah]

course completed, thank you Ms Nana. please recommend next, I am thinking of Jenkins

[@thuctranvan4630]

Thank you so much. It's very helpful 😍

[@ridwan4107]

thanks Nana, really helpful tips for me

[@Hackenbaker]

Thanks a lot. This information is very valuable.

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Thanks Nana ♥

[@youtubeoneverything4581]

Informative and detailed❣️

[@AhmedHabbachi]

I started watching this video with a lot of skepticism, but really great practices and it responded to a lot of my question, even if I was doing some tips I didn't know why it was done like so (as I was basically copy pasting commands) great explanation thanks.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Really happy to hear, thanks Ahmed for the feedback! :)

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@TechWorld with Nana amazing video and the k you for educating us.

[@hichemd.7441]

Great video, as always .. 👏

[@Shubham__Saroj]

Awesomely explained! Thanks

[@user-mo2ss3hh2p]

Good video! Thank you for sharing! Just one thing to mention: since you're saying in "production", maybe you wouldn't use node.js 17(odd version instead of LTS, which is unstable).

[@elenaperez6327]

Great tips, thank you! 😀

[@gadgetkh9408]

Great tips! Thank you!

[@SuMiSc]

Perfect as usual!

[@maryellenbowman2738]

Fantastically presented content.

[@joncrockettable]

This is great. Thank you!

[@iamaashishpatel]

Simply awesome video!

[@0123anonymous]

Interesting.. a very useful.. thanks you Nana

[@zavierrodriguez9236]

Great video!!! Thank you!

[@tech-daddy]

Great content, thank you!

[@DevTalles]

Awesome! Thank you so much!

[@orhanfirik]

Great compilation 👍🏻

[@colinschi1001]

One quick note. For Image caching you have to use immuteable tags/layers. Otherwise a for example when a cached latest tag is used and never get updated. To be more precise you can also use the layers/image digest instead of a tag. @Nana As always: Great videos! :)

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I love your content!

[@horvathmilcsi]

Great lecture thank you for sharing!

[@blissweb]

Excellent info for a newbie like myself. 🙂

[@francoisscala417]

And, of course, you can also specify the images versions for a multi-stage build.

[@franekborowiec9648]

great video! Learned a few things :)

[@Souhib77]

Great video Nana, please more video on best practices !! 😊

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for your feedback, glad to hear! :)

[@samucancld]

such a great content, thanks

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Very usefull video, thanks!

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Thank you Great tutorial

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Thanks! This video was really helpful.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you Gary!

[@daryanghandehari6313]

awesome video as always

[@dmitriydiachenko5648]

awesome useful video! thank you

[@Lunolux]

very useful video, thanks

[@fauzifauzi2129]

Hi Nana, could you do best practice in using docker for non development purpose, more into administration jobs, like what is the best practice in volume management, updating image, how to transfer volume between hosts, etc.??

[@omrivol]

Thanks Nana!

[@rahulaggarwal2244]

Awesome!! Really helpful Video. Can you please make one video for vault integration and uses with kubernetes as well :)

[@madhanr5622]

Thanks Nana for your valuable information sharing 👍. Pls do one video for k8s

[@abdulwahidgul]

If we can get the best practices for docker-compose. It will like aged wine and tasty cheese. Great video. You just level up docker game to a whole new level. Thank you

[@greob]

Very good tips, and very nice video editing, good presentation!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Happy you like the video, really appreciate your comment :)

[@andy5627]

I think another best practice good to mention is to minimize the number of layers, for example instead of write multiple `RUN` instructions which created multiple layers, we can write a single `RUN` instruction with the necessary commands by concat it with && or even backslash `\` to decorate the Dockerfile for better readability.

[@nathanlewis42]

Wouldn’t that mess less effective caching? If you had three commands anded together and only the last need to change you would not have a cache of the previous two.

[@berndeckenfels]

@@nathanlewis42 yes, it’s probably better to not use it in the build step and only in the run image if the missing cache Is a tradeoff (depends on how often you change a image and how many copy’s are distributed)

[@fadidev3383]

Very basics, every dockeist knows this!

[@andriyun]

One of the most popular practice to reduce a size of a layer is deleting cache files the package managers generates during installation process.

[@SerpentsHiss]

Nicely done, didn't know the details of how the caching worked / broke or the default user being root. *scampers off to fix docker images*

[@Clonel]

I liked before watching the video :)