Docker Weekly Roundup | October 30, 2016

This week, we delve into the top considerations for running Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V, the suite of Docker security tools available and the three steps required to get MSBuild in Docker. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top five most-read stories for the week of October 30, 2016:

• Docker For Windows Server With Hyper-V – top considerations for running Docker for Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V VM to understand how they can work together.
• Docker Security – an overview of the suite of tools available to help secure a container and their range of enhancements built into the Docker platform by Benjamin Wootton.
• MSBuild With Docker – three steps needed to get MSBuild in a Docker container and have it build an ASP.NET WebAPI application with Windows Containers by Alex Ellis.
• Docker Enterprise Case Studies – five application case studies covering everything from legacy processes to CI/CD pipelines and how Docker helped reduce customer cost, complexity and chaos.
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Docker Weekly Roundup | October 23, 2016

The last week of October 2016 is over and you know what that means; another Docker news roundup. Highlights include Windows workloads with Image2Docker, part four of the SwarmKit series, and a Docker InfraKit test-drive! As we begin a new week, let’s recap our five top stories:

• Windows Workloads with Image2Docker – a community supported and designed project to demonstrate the ease of creating Windows Containers from existing servers. Interested parties are encouraged to fork it, play with it and contribute pull requests back to the community.

• SwarmKit – Part 4 –  a tutorial series on Docker SwarmKit led by Gabriel Schenker. Part four of the series explains how to create a swarm in the cloud and run a sample application on it.

• Docker Volumes  – user instructions on how to make sure posts and images stay permanent via Docker volumes, even with an upgrade to a container image, as showcased by Alex Ellis.

• InfraKit Test-Drive – a detailed illustration of a sample Docker image created to demonstrate InfraKit’s self-healing operation via Ajeet Raina.  

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Docker Weekly Roundup | October 9, 2016

It’s time for your weekly roundup! Get caught up on the top Docker news including; expansion into China through a commercial partnership with Alibaba Cloud, announcement of DockerCon 2017, and information on the upcoming Global Mentor Week. As we begin a new week, let’s recap the top five most-read stories of the week of October 9, 2016:

• Alibaba Cloud Partnership Docker expands into China market through new partnership with the Alibaba Group, the world’s largest retail commerce group. The focus of the partnership is to provide a China-based Docker Hub, enable Alibaba to resell Docker’s commercial offerings, and create a “Docker For Alibaba Cloud”.

• DockerCon 2017 a three day, conference organized by Docker. This year’s US edition will take place in Austin, TX and continue to build on the success of previous events as it grows and reflects Docker’s established ecosystem and ever-growing community.

• Global Mentor Week  is a global event series aimed at providing Docker training to both newcomers and intermediate users. Participants will work through self-paced labs that will be available through an online Learning Management System (LMS). There will be different labs for different skill levels, Developers, Ops, Linux and Windows users.

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Docker Weekly Roundup | October 2, 2016

This week, our readers enjoyed some big Docker news, including the release of InfraKit, a toolkit for declarative infrastructure, a Windows 10 container guide, and a new open source project Image2Docker. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of October 2, 2016:

• InfraKit is a new declarative management toolkit for orchestrating infrastructure. InfraKit’s simple, pluggable components for a declarative infrastructure state, actively monitor and automatically reconcile that state.

• Windows Server Container guide is designed to get setup to run Docker Windows Containers on Windows 10 or using a Windows Server 2016 VM.

• Docs Repo On GitHub is a consolidation of all Docker documentation into a single Pages-based repository on GitHub. All documentation for Docker projects will now be open sourced for an easier than ever way to contribute to and stage the public docs.

• Image2Docker is a new tool for prototyping Windows VM conversions to show how to replicate a VM Image to a container. The Powershell module can point at a virtual hard disk image, scan for common Windows components and suggest a Dockerfile.

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Docker Weekly Roundup | September 25, 2016

The last week of September 2016 is over and you know what that means; another Docker news roundup. Highlights include, a new commercial relationship between Docker and Microsoft, general availability of Docker containers on Windows Server 2016, and consolidation of Docker documentation on GitHub! As we begin a new week, let’s recap our five hottest stories:

• Docker and Microsoft Partnership Docker announced a Commercial Partnership with Microsoft that doubles the container market by extending Docker Engine to Windows Server 2016.
• Docker for Windows Server 2016 Microsoft announced general availability of Windows Server 2016, one of the most exciting new aspect of the announcement  is that containers on Windows are powered by Docker.
• Containers for Windows a step-by-step guide on containerized workload, the various components, such as the Docker client tools, the Docker daemon, and the virtual machine host for running containers by Bruno Terkaly.
• New Docs Repo on GitHub announcement of consolidation of all Docker documentation into a new single Pages-based repository on GitHub.
• Image2Docker a new prototyping tool created by Docker Captain Trevor Sullivan for Windows VMs that shows how to replicate a VM Image to a Docker container.

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Docker Weekly Roundup | September 18, 2016

It’s time for your weekly roundup! Get caught up on the top Docker news including; how to maintain dev environments for Java web apps, scale with Swarm, and make your CI/CD pipeline work for you. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top five most-read stories of the week of September 18, 2016:

• Debugging Java in Docker tutorial for building a Java web application using containers and three popular Java IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and Netbeans by Sophia Parafina. 

• Orchestration Workshop instructional workshop to scale out an app, operate and go deeper in Docker Swarm by Jerome Petazzoni.  

• PiZero Swarm with OTG  detailed explanation on how to build your own PiZero Swarm with OTG networking by Docker Captain Alex Ellis.

• Docker-based Workflow Learn how to make your CI/CD pipeline work with these four tips for an effective Docker-based workflow by Docker Captain Adrian Mouat.

• Service Discovery in the Swarm Cluster overview of how Docker Engine now acts as a Swarm manager, Swarm worker, and service registry by Docker Captain Viktor Farcic.

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Docker Weekly Roundup | September 11, 2016

As we arrive at the conclusion of another week, the team at Docker wanted to take a moment to reflect on a few of the top posts you might have missed, while also highlighting a few other Docker stories from around the web. Here’s the weekly roundup for the week of September 11, 2016:

• Docker Partner Program introducing the new tiered Docker Partner Program designed to address the growing demand by enterprise companies to adopt Containers as a Service environments with Docker Datacenter. 

• Dockercast Episode 3 in this podcast Docker catches up with Nirmal Mehta at Booz Allen Hamilton. We discuss how large government organizations are modernizing their IT infrastructures and why these types of institutions seem to be early adopters of Docker.

• Docker + Golang a short collection of tips and tricks by Jerome Petazzoni showing how Docker can be useful when working with Go code.

• IoT Swarm with Docker Machine the new Swarm Mode in Docker 1.12 makes it easy to build a Docker Swarm and connect different ARM devices to an IoT cluster. Instructions on how to build your own by Docker Captain Dieter Reuter.

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Docker Weekly Roundup | September 4, 2016

Each week, Docker rounds up the most popular, informative, and thought-provoking articles from the tech community. This week, we delve into current options for securing Docker in production environments, unveil Microsoft’s container monitoring solution and answer the top Docker questions from VMWorld. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top five most-read stories for the week of September 4, 2016:

• Security in Production overview of the options available for securing Docker in production environments by Delve Labs.

• OMS Container Monitoring Microsoft unveils Docker container monitoring solution, signaling the company’s interest in delving deeper into the open-source container space by Christopher Tozzi at Container Journal.

• Windows Containers and Docker the five things you need to know in preparation of Docker running natively as a Windows service, with the release of Windows Server 2016 by Elton Stoneman.

• VMWorld Questions the top four questions about Docker asked at VMWorld 2016 by Chris Hines.

• Docker Cache on Travis learn a workaround using Travis cache with the upgrade of Travis to Docker 1.12 (from 1.9) by Giorgos Logiotatidis.

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Docker Weekly Roundup | August 28, 2016

The last week of August 2016 is over and you know what that means; another Docker news roundup. Highlights include, Docker comes to Raspberry Pi, a cheat sheet for Windows 10 and a presentation by Mike Coleman at Tech Field Day at VMWorld 2016.

• Docker for Windows: cheat sheet of commands to manage containers and Docker Swarm services on Windows 10 dev machine. These scripts are compatible with Docker 1.12 and Docker for Windows by Stefan Prodan.
• Tech Field Day: What is Docker? Mike Coleman, Technical Evangelist, introduces Docker and discusses container technology and how it works to help applications.
• Docker + Raspberry Pi: the latest release for Raspberry Pi officially includes Raspbian Jessie installation support. You can now install the Docker client on your Raspberry Pi with just one terminal command by Matt Richardson.
• Docker with ARM Devices: use Docker to build a Computing cluster with ARM devices by Vivek Juneja.
• Docker Training Course: the Docker Administration and Operations training course consists of both the Introduction to Docker course, followed by the Advanced Docker Topics course, held over four consecutive days.

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Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Docker Articles for this week

Here’s the buzz from this week we think you should know about! We shared a preview of Microsoft’s Docker container monitoring, reviewed the Docker Engine security feature set, and delivered a quick tutorial for getting 1.12.1 running on Raspberry Pi 3. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top five most-read stories for the week of August 21, 2016:

• Docker security: the Docker Engine has strong security default for all containerized applications.

• 1.12.1 on Raspberry Pi 3: five minute guide for getting Docker 1.12.1 running on Raspberry Pi 3 by Docker Captain Ajeet Singh Raina.

• Securing the Enterprise: how Docker’s security features can be used to provide active and continuous security for a software supply chain.

• Docker + NATS for Microservices: building a microservices control plane using NATS and Docker v1.12 by Wally Quevedo.

• Container Monitoring: Microsoft previews open Docker container monitoring. Aimed at users who want a simplified view of containers’ usage, to diagnose issues whether containers are running in the cloud or on-premises by Sam Dean.  

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Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Docker articles of the week

This week, we announced the launch of the Docker Scholarship program, got to know our featured Docker Captains, and aired the first #Dockercast episode. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of August 14, 2016:

• Docker Scholarship Program: Docker announced the launch of a new scholarship program, in partnership with Reactor Core, a network of coding schools. The application period is open and interested applicants can apply here.
• Docker Captains: meet and greet with our three selected August Captains. Learn how they got started, what they love most about Docker, and why Docker.
• Dockercast Episode 1: this podcast guest stars Ilan Rabinovitch the Director of Technical Community at Datadog and discusses Monitoring-as-a-Service, Docker metadata and Docker container monitoring information.
• Docker on Raspberry Pi: an informative guide to getting started with Docker on Raspberry Pi by Docker Captain Alex Ellis
• Powershell with Docker: introduction to building your own custom Docker container image, that runs PowerShell natively on Ubuntu Linux by Larry Larsen & Docker Captain Trevor Sullivan at Channel 9

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Docker Weekly | Roundup

This week, we’re taking a look at how to quickly create a Docker swarm cluster, setup a mail forwarder on Docker, and better understand the new Docker 1.12.0 load-balancing feature. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of August 7, 2016:

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Weekly Docker Roundup: 5 Stories You Don’t Want to Miss

This week, we take a look into the Docker 1.12 native integration of Swarm Mode, debug Dockerized .NET core apps with VS Code, and learn why Docker CEO Ben Golub is leading the charge as the #1 IT disruptor. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of July 31, 2016:
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Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Most Popular Posts

This week, our readers enjoyed some big Docker news, including the great milestone of making Docker 1.12, Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows generally available for production environments, answers to the ten most often asked Docker questions and more. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of July 24, 2016:

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Happy Infrastructure Engineers + System Administrator Appreciation Day!

To celebrate National Infrastructure Engineers and System Administrators Day, we asked the IT pros to tweet us their tips and tricks. After narrowing the submissions to five — here are the top shared life hacks in 140 characters (or less).
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National Infrastructure Engineers / System Administrator Appreciation Day

National Infrastructure Engineers / System Administrator Appreciation Day is just around the corner. Each year, on the last Friday in July we praise the heroes that keep our organizations running smoothly.