Container Orchestration Bundle

Container Orchestration Bundle

Four cheatsheets covering the full container lifecycle: building images with Docker, composing multi-service stacks locally, orchestrating them at cluster scale with Kubernetes, and packaging applications for repeatable deployment with Helm.

Each sheet is designed to be printed and pinned above your desk — the commands you actually use during incidents and deployments, not a re-printed man page.

What's Included

Docker Cheatsheet

• Image lifecycle — build, tag, push, prune, multi-stage builds
• Container operations — run, exec, logs, inspect, stats, stop vs kill
• Volumes and bind mounts — when each is appropriate, backup strategies
• Networks — bridge, host, overlay, and container-to-container DNS
• Dockerfile patterns — layer ordering for cache efficiency, .dockerignore
• Debugging — docker inspect JSON filtering, docker events, disk usage triage

Docker Compose Cheatsheet

• Service definition syntax — the fields that matter in production
• Environment handling — .env files, variable substitution, secrets
• Health checks and depends_on conditions — real startup ordering
• Override files — dev vs staging vs production from one base
• Scaling and resource limits — deploy section, CPU/memory bounds
• Common failure modes — orphan containers, stale networks, volume name clashes

Kubernetes Cheatsheet

• Core objects — Pod, Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, Secret
• kubectl patterns — contexts, namespaces, -o jsonpath, label selectors
• Rolling updates and rollbacks — kubectl rollout in practice
• Debugging — describe, logs, exec, port-forward, ephemeral containers
• Resource management — requests vs limits, QoS classes, node pressure
• RBAC essentials — Role, RoleBinding, and service accounts

Helm Cheatsheet

• Chart structure — Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates
• Template functions — pipelines, conditionals, ranges, named templates
• Dependencies and subcharts — composing applications from reusable parts
• Release management — install, upgrade, rollback, history
• Values layering — set flags, values files, environment overrides
• Hooks and tests — pre-upgrade jobs, chart verification

Excerpt — Docker Layer Caching

The difference between a 12-second and a 4-minute build is usually layer ordering. Copy your dependency manifests first, install dependencies, then copy source:

# Slow: any source change invalidates the dependency install
COPY . /app
RUN pip install -r /app/requirements.txt

# Fast: dependencies only reinstall when the manifest changes
COPY requirements.txt /app/
RUN pip install -r /app/requirements.txt
COPY . /app

Excerpt — Kubernetes Rollback

# Check rollout history
kubectl rollout history deployment/web -n production

# Roll back to the previous revision
kubectl rollout undo deployment/web -n production

# Pin a specific revision
kubectl rollout undo deployment/web --to-revision=3 -n production

# Watch rollout status until it settles
kubectl rollout status deployment/web -n production --timeout=120s

Choosing Between Docker Compose and Kubernetes

| Signal | Compose | Kubernetes | |---|---|---| | Single host, handful of services | ✔ | overkill | | Need self-healing and autoscaling | — | ✔ | | Team smaller than ~5 engineers | ✔ | consider later | | Multi-node or hybrid cloud | — | ✔ | | CI/CD with blue/green rollouts | possible | ✔ |

Many teams run Compose in staging and Kubernetes in production — the bundle covers both, so the same reference serves each environment.

Related Reading on graphwiz.ai

• Containerized AI Workloads: Multi-Model Management with Docker
• Kubescape 4: Kubernetes Security in the AI Era

Format

• Four PDFs (print-ready, A4), one per tool
• Each sheet fits on one to two pages — designed to print and tape to your wall
• Instant download after purchase

Price

$14.00

Who This Is For

• Developers and DevOps engineers running containerized workloads in staging or production
• Teams adopting Kubernetes who need a quick reference for both Docker and K8s commands side by side
• Anyone who wants printed cheatsheets on the wall instead of context-switching to browser tabs

FAQ

Do the sheets cover Podman or containerd? The Docker sheet targets the Docker CLI, but the majority of commands work identically under Podman's Docker-compatible interface. containerd users typically interact via Kubernetes or nerdctl — the K8s sheet covers that path.

Which Kubernetes version do the examples target? kubectl 1.29+ syntax. Where older clusters differ (notably kubectl run flags and ephemeral containers), the sheet notes the version boundary.

Are the cheatsheets updated? Yes — the bundle receives updates when major versions shift behaviour. Buyers get re-download access to new revisions through the library page.