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Up Your Productivity with these DockerCon LIVE 2020 Sessions

DockerCon LIVE 2020 is the opportunity for the Docker Community to connect while socially distancing, have fun, and learn from each other. From beginner to expert, DockerCon speakers are getting ready to share their tips and tricks for becoming more productive and finding joy while building apps.

From the Docker team, Engineer Dave Scott will share how recent updates to Docker Desktop helps to deliver quicker edit-compile-test cycles to developers. He’ll dive into the New Docker Desktop Filesharing Features that enabled this change and how to use them effectively to speed up your dev workflow.

Docker Engineer Anca Lordache will cover Best Practices for Compose-managed Python Applications, from bootstrapping your project to how to reproduce your builds and make them more optimized.

If you are a Node.js developer, Digital Ocean’s Kathleen Juell will share How to Build and Run Node Apps with Docker and Compose.

And for PHP devs, Erika Heidi from Digital Ocean will demonstrate How to Create PHP Development Environments with Docker Compose, using a Laravel 6 application as case study. She’ll demonstrate how to define and integrate services, share files between containers, and manage your environment with Docker Compose commands.

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Announcing the DockerCon LIVE 2020 Speakers

After receiving many excellent CFP submissions, we are thrilled to finally announce the first round of speakers for DockerCon LIVE on May 28th starting at 9am PT / GMT-7. Check out the agenda here.

In order to maximize the opportunity to connect with speakers and learn from their experience, talks are pre-recorded and speakers are available for live Q&A for their whole session. From best practices and how tos to new product features and use cases; from technical deep dives to open source projects in action, there are a lot of great sessions to choose from, like:

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#mydockerbday Recap + Community Stories

Although March has come and gone, you can still take part in the awesome activities put together by the community to celebrate Docker’s 7th birthday. 

Birthday Challenge

Denise Rey and Captains Łukasz Lach, Marcos Nils, Elton Stoneman, Nicholas Dille, and Brandon Mitchell put together an amazing birthday challenge for the community to complete and it is still available. If you haven’t checked out the hands-on learning content yet, go to the birthday page and earn your seven badges (and don’t forget to share them on twitter).

Live Show

Captain Bret Fisher hosted a 3-hour live Birthday Show with the Docker team and Captains. You can check out the whole thing on Docker’s Youtube Channel, or skip ahead using the timestamps below:

Community Stories

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#myDockerBday Discounts on Docker Captain Docker + Kubernetes Content

If your #myDockerBday celebration included wanting to learn more about Docker or Kubernetes, you are in luck. In honor of Docker’s 7th birthday, Docker Captains have extended some fantastic deals on their learning content. Take this opportunity to level up your skills and learn Docker with excellent instructors. 

Books and EBooks

Through the end of March, you can get Elton Stoneman’s Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches and/or Jeff Nickeloff’s Docker in Action 2nd Edition for 40% off using the code mtpdocker20.

Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches

Elton Stoneman
Go from zero to production readiness with Docker in 22 bite-sized lessons! Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches is an accessible task-focused guide to Docker on Linux, Windows, or Mac systems. In it, you’ll learn practical Docker skills to help you tackle the challenges of modern IT, from cloud migration and microservices to handling legacy systems. There’s no excessive theory or niche-use cases– just a quick-and-easy guide to the essentials of Docker you’ll use every day.

Docker in Action 2nd Edition

Jeff Nickeloff
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DockerCon LIVE with theCUBE: Call for Papers is Open

CFP Deadline: March 27th at 11:59 PM PST

The beauty of Docker is in the ways that developers are using it to positively impact their lives, industries, and day-to-day workflows. From sending rockets to space, to running some of the biggest apps on Earth, Docker helps developers build and share containerized apps – from the boring to the apps that change the world. DockerCon is the place where the community comes together to connect and share stories, best practices, and use cases. 

Back in December, we announced that DockerCon would not be a physical event but instead was evolving into a digital event. At the time, that decision was made in order to make attending DockerCon an option for any and all developers and members of the community. And now with the current state of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are extra thankful to have already been planning for a virtual-only gathering. This change to DockerCon is the safest and healthiest option for our community, and we are excited to still bring everyone together to learn and share from one another.  

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Docker Turns 7!

Since its introduction at PyCon in 2013, Docker has changed the way the world develops applications. And over the last 7 years, we’ve loved watching developers – new and seasoned – bring their ideas to life with Docker.

As is our tradition in the Docker community, we will be celebrating Docker’s birthday month with meetups (virtual + IRL), a special hands-on challenge, cake, and swag. Join us and celebrate your #myDockerBDay and the ways Docker and this community have impacted you – from the industry you work in, to an application you’ve built; from your-day-to-day workflow to your career. 

Learn more about the birthday celebrations below and share your #myDockerBday story with us on twitter or submit it here for a chance to win some awesome Docker swag.

Docker Birthday LIVE Show on March 26th, 9am – 12pm GMT-8

Celebrate Docker’s Birthday with a special 3-hour live show featuring exclusive conversations with the Docker team and Captains, open Q&A sessions, and prizes. To reserve a spot, sign up here. 

7th Birthday Challenge

Learn some of the Docker Captain’s favorite Tips + Tricks by completing 7 hands-on exercises. Earn a virtual badge for each exercise completed.

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2019 Docker Community Awards

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Year in Review: The Most Loved Docker Articles, Blogs and Tweets of 2019

As this decade comes to a close, we are rounding up some of your favorite content from 2019. Catch up on anything you missed and get ready for a lot more to come in 2020!

Docker Captain Content

Brian Christner did an analysis of VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes Google Trends and the results just might surprise you. . . or maybe not.

John Lees Miller updated his 2016 Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker. Run through the updated tutorial to learn how to Dockerize your node.js apps by setting up the socket.io chat example with Docker, from scratch to production-ready. 

Ajeet Singh Raina wrote nearly 30 blogs in 2019, and the most popular was 5 Minutes to Kubernetes Dashboard running on Docker Desktop for Windows 2.0.0.3. Find yourself five minutes before the end of the year to try this out yourself.

Łukasz Lach and Thomas Shaw spread holiday cheer with some seasonal docker run commands:

$ docker run -it lukaszlach/merry-christmas 

docker run --rm -t tomwillfixit/hohoho

Bret Fisher hosts a weekly Docker and DevOps YouTube live show – a fun and educational way to spend an hour on Thursdays. Continue reading

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Black Friday Deals on Docker + Kubernetes Courses

In honor of Black Friday, America’s favorite shopping holiday, we’ve rounded up the best deals on Docker + Kubernetes learning materials from Docker Captains. Docker Captain is a distinction that Docker awards to select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are committed to sharing their Docker knowledge with others. 

Books:

Manning publications is also offering half off when you spend $50 this week.

Self-Paced Online Courses:

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Women in Tech Week Profile: Renee Mascarinas

We’re continuing our celebration of Women in Tech Week into this week with another profile of one of many of the amazing women who make a tremendous impact at Docker – this week, and every week – helping developers build modern apps.

What is your job?

Product Designer. 

How long have you worked at Docker?

11 months.

Is your current role one that you always intended on your career path? 

The designer part, yes. But the software product part, not necessarily. My background is in architecture and industrial design and I imagined I would do physical product design. But I enjoy UX; the speed at which you can iterate is great for design.

What is your advice for someone entering the field?

To embrace discomfort. I don’t mean that in a bad way. A mentor once told me that the only time your brain is actually growing is when you’re uncomfortable. It has something to do with the dendrites being forced to grow because you’re forced to learn new things.

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Women in Tech Week Profile: Clara McKenzie

We’re continuing our celebration of Women in Tech Week with another profile of one of many of the amazing women who make a tremendous impact at Docker – this week, and every week – helping developers build modern apps.

What is your job?

SEG Engineer (Support Escalation Engineer).

How long have you worked at Docker?

4 months.

Is your current role one that you always intended on your career path? 

The SEG role is a combination that probably doesn’t exist as a general rule. I’ve always liked to support other engineers and work cross-functionally, as well as unravel hard problems, so it’s a great fit for me.

What is your advice for someone entering the field?

The only thing constant about a career in tech is change. When in doubt, keep moving. By that, I mean keep learning, keep weighing new ideas, keep trying new things.  

Tell us about a favorite moment or memory at Docker or from your career? 

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Women in Tech Week Profile: Amn Rahman

We’re continuing our celebration of Women in Tech Week with another profile of one of many of the amazing women who make a tremendous impact at Docker – this week, and every week – helping developers build modern apps. 

What is your job?

I work as a data engineer – building and maintaining data pipelines and delivery tools for the entire company. 

How long have you worked at Docker?

2 years. 

Is your current role one that you always intended on your career path? 

Not quite! As a teenager, I wanted to become a cryptographer and spent most of my time in undergrad and grad school on research in privacy and security. I eventually realized I liked working with data and was pretty good at dealing with databases, which pushed me into my current role. 

What is your advice for someone entering the field?

Become acquainted with the entire data journey and try to pick up one tool or language for each phase. For example, you may choose to use Python to fetch and transform data from an API and load it Continue reading

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Women in Tech Week Profile: Jenny Fong

We’re continuing our celebration of Women in Tech Week with another profile of one of many of the amazing women who make a tremendous impact at Docker – this week, and every week – helping developers build modern apps. 

What is your job? 

Senior Director of Product Marketing.

How long have you worked at Docker? 

2 ½ years.

Is your current role one that you always intended on your career path? 

Nope! I studied engineering and started in a technical role at a semiconductor company. I realized there that I really enjoyed helping others understand how technology works, and that led me to Product Marketing! What I love about the role is that it’s extremely cross-functional. You work closely with engineering, product management, sales and marketing, and it requires both left brain and right brain skills. My technical background helps me to understand our products, while my creative side helps me communicate our products’ core value propositions. 

What is your advice for someone entering the field?

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Women in Tech Week Profile: Anusha Ragunathan

It’s Women in Tech Week, and we want to take the opportunity to celebrate some of the amazing women who make a tremendous impact at Docker – this week, and every week – helping developers build modern apps.

What is your job?

Software Engineer. I build systems, write and review code, test and analyze software. I’ve always worked on infrastructure software both at and before Docker. I participate in Moby and Kubernetes OSS projects. My current work is on persistent storage for Kubernetes workloads and integrating it with Docker’s Universal Control Plane. I also enjoy speaking at technical conferences and writing blogs about my work. 

How long have you worked at Docker?

 4 years and 1 month!

Is your current role one that you always intended on your career path? 

Yes, I’ve always been on this path. In my high school, we had the option to take biological sciences or Computer Sciences (CS). I chose CS and since then that has been my path. I earned both my bachelors’ and master’s degrees in CS.

What is your advice for someone entering the field?

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Docker + Arm Virtual Meetup Recap: Building Multi-arch Apps with Buildx

Docker support for cross-platform applications is better than ever. At this month’s Docker Virtual Meetup, we featured Docker Architect Elton Stoneman showing how to build and run truly cross-platform apps using Docker’s buildx functionality. 

With Docker Desktop, you can now describe all the compilation and packaging steps for your app in a single Dockerfile, and use it to build an image that will run on Linux, Windows, Intel and Arm – 32-bit and 64-bit. In the video, Elton covers the Docker runtime and its understanding of OS and CPU architecture, together with the concept of multi-architecture images and manifests.

The key takeaways from the meetup on using buildx:

• Everything should be multi-platform
• Always use multi-stage Dockerfiles 
• buildx is experimental but solid (based on BuildKit)
• Alternatively use docker manifest — also experimental

Not a Docker Desktop user? Jason Andrews, a Solutions Director at Arm, posted this great article on how to setup buildx using Docker Community Engine on Linux. 

Check out the full meetup on Docker’s YouTube Channel:

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Docker Release Party Recap

We Celebrated the Launch of Docker Enterprise 3.0 and Docker 19.03 Last Week

Last week, Docker Captain Bret Fisher hosted a 3-day Release Party for Docker 19.03 and Docker Enterprise 3.0. Captains and the Docker team demonstrated some of their favorite new features and answered live audience questions. Here are the highlights (You can check out the full release party here).

Docker Desktop Enterprise

To kick things off, Docker Product Manager Ben De St Paer-Gotch shared Docker Desktop Enterprise. Docker Desktop Enterprise ships with the Enterprise Engine and includes a number of features that makes enterprise development easier and more productive. For example, version packs allow developers to switch between Docker Engine versions and Kubernetes versions, all from the desktop.

For admins, Docker Desktop Enterprise includes the ability to lock down the settings of Docker Desktop, so developers’ machines stay aligned with corporate requirements. Ben also demonstrated Docker Application Designer, a feature that allows users to create new Docker applications by using a library of templates, making it easier for developers in the enterprise to get updated app templates – or “gold standard” versions like the right environment variable settings, custom code, custom editor settings, Continue reading

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10 Reasons Developers Love Docker

Developers ranked Docker as the #1 most wanted platform, #2 most loved platform, and #3 most broadly used platform in the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Nearly 90,000 developers from around the world responded to the survey. So we asked the community why they love Docker, and here are 10 of the reasons they shared:

 

1. It works on everyone’s machine. Docker eliminates the “but it worked on my laptop” problem.

“I love docker because it takes environment specific issues out of the equation – making the developer’s life easier and improving productivity by reducing time wasted debugging issues that ultimately don’t add value to the application.” @pamstr_

2. Takes the pain out of CI/CD. If there is one thing developers hate, it is doing the same thing over and over.

“Docker completely changed my life as a developer! I can spin up my project dependencies like databases for my application in a second in a clean state on any machine on our team! I can‘t not imagine the whole ci/cd-approach without docker. Automate all the stuff? Dockerize it!” @Dennis65560555 

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We’ve Got ❤️ For Our First Batch of DockerCon Speakers

As the world celebrates Valentine’s Day, at Docker, we are celebrating what makes our heart all aflutter – gearing up for an amazing DockerCon with the individuals and organizations that make up the Docker community. With that, we are thrilled to announce our first speakers for DockerCon San Francisco, April 29 – May 2.

DockerCon fan favorites like Liz Rice, Bret Fisher and Don Bauer are returning to the conference to share new insights and experiences to help you better learn how to containerize.

And we are excited to welcome new speakers to the DockerCon family including Ana Medina, Tommy Hamilton and Ian Coldwater to talk chaos engineering, building your production container platform stack and orchestration with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. 

And we’re just getting started! This year DockerCon is going to bring more technical deep dives, practical how-to’s, customer case studies and inspirational stories. Stay tuned as we announce the full speaker line up this month.

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5 Reasons to Attend DockerCon SF 2019

 

If you can only attend one conference this year – make it matter. DockerCon is the one-stop event for practitioners, contributors, maintainers, developers, and the container ecosystem to learn, network and innovate. And this year, we will continue to bring you all the things you love about DockerCon like Docker Pals, the Hallway Track and roundtables, and the sessions and content you wanted more of – including open source, transformational, and practical how-to talks. Take advantage of our lowest ticket price when you register by January 31, 2019. No codes required.

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And in case you are still not convinced, here are a few more reasons you shouldn’t miss this year’s DockerCon

1. Belong. The Docker Community is one of a kind and the best way to feel a part of it is at DockerCon. Take advantage the Docker Pals Program, Hallway Track, roundables and social events to meet new people and make lasting connections.

2.  Think big. Docker containers and our container platform are being used everywhere for everything – from sending rockets to space to literally saving the earth from asteroids to keeping e-commerce running smoothly for black friday shoppers. Come to DockerCon and Continue reading

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2018 Docker Community Awards

 

 

The Docker community has been at the heart of Docker’s success from the start. We are constantly in awe of the dedication and passion of the practitioners – users, customers, partners, contributors and maintainers – who make up our community. Early in December at DockerCon Barcelona we were humbled to honor a Docker Captain and a few very special Community Leaders whose activities over the past year have made a tremendous difference to us all. Together, the Docker Community has achieved so much, we can’t wait to see what 2019 has in store.

Tip of the Captains Hat Award

Bret Fisher

 

Docker Captain (and Community Leader) Bret Fisher was nominated to receive this inaugural award by his fellow Captains because his contribution and leadership serve as an example of what it means to be a Docker Captain. Bret teaches Docker to thousands of people through his Docker Mastery online course, conference workshops, and ask-me-anythings on YouTube Live. He is accessible and constantly sharing knowledge with the community and the Captains, and he helps drive improvements up and down the software stack of both Docker open source and Docker commercial products. In Bret’s own words:

“I’m so proud Continue reading