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Don’t Pick an Ops Platform Your Devs Won’t Use
In all of the excitement and buzz around Kubernetes, one important factor in the conversation that seems to be glossed over is how and where containerized applications are built. Going back to Docker’s roots, it was developers who were the first ones to adopt Docker containers. It solved their own local development issues and made it easier and faster to get applications out the door.
Fast forward 5 years, and developers are more important than ever. They build modern apps and modernize existing apps that are the backbone of organizations. If you’re in IT operations and selecting application platforms, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is making this decision in isolation, without development buy-in.
Avoiding Shadow IT, Round 2
In the early days of public cloud, developers started going around IT to get fast access to computing resources, creating the first round of “Shadow IT”. Today, most large enterprises have embraced cloud applications and infrastructure, and work collaboratively across application development and operations teams to serve their needs.
But there’s a risk we’ll invite the same thing to happen again by making a container platform decision that doesn’t involve your developers. Here are 3 reasons to Continue reading
See Docker Enterprise 3.0 in Action in Our Upcoming Webinar Series
To showcase all of the capabilities of the platform and highlight what is new in this release, we invite you to join our 5-part webinar series to explore the technologies that make up Docker Enterprise 3.0. You’ll see several demos of the platform and gain a better understanding of how Docker can you help your organization deliver high-velocity innovation while providing you the choice and security you need. We designed the webinar both for those new to containers and Kubernetes, as well as those who are just here to learn more about what’s new. We’re excited to share what we’ve been working on.
Here’s an overview of what we’ll be covering in each session.
Part 1: Content Management
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 @ 11am PDT / 2pm EDTThis webinar will cover the Continue reading
Build, Share and Run Multi-Service Applications with Docker Enterprise 3.0
Modern applications can come in many flavors, consisting of different technology stacks and architectures, from n-tier to microservices and everything in between. Regardless of the application architecture, the focus is shifting from individual containers to a new unit of measurement which defines a set of containers working together – the Docker Application. We first introduced Docker Application packages a few months ago. In this blog post, we look at what’s driving the need for these higher-level objects and how Docker Enterprise 3.0 begins to shift the focus to applications.
Scaling for Multiple Services and Microservices
Since our founding in 2013, Docker – and the ecosystem that has thrived around it – has been built around the core workflow of a Dockerfile that creates a container image that in turn becomes a running container. Docker containers, in turn, helped to drive the growth and popularity of microservices architectures by allowing independent parts of an application to be turned on and off rapidly and scaled independently and efficiently. The challenge is that as microservices adoption grows, a single application is no longer based on a handful of machines but dozens of containers that can be divided amongst different development teams. Continue reading
It’s a Wrap – Highlights from the DockerCon 2019 Keynote Sessions
If you missed DockerCon in San Francisco this year or were unable to watch the livestream, no need to worry – we have you covered. You can catch all the demos, get the latest announcements and find out what is next for the Docker ecosystem by watching the replay sessions on demand.
Day 1: Docker Enterprise 3.0, Customer Innovation Awards, Robots and More
On Tuesday, we kicked off the first day of DockerCon with product announcements, demos and customer guest speakers. During the session, we presented Docker Enterprise 3.0, the only desktop-to-cloud enterprise container platform enabling organizations to build and share any application and securely run them anywhere – from hybrid cloud to the edge. Additionally, we announced this year’s winners of the Customer Innovation awards, featuring Carnival, Citizens Bank, Liberty Mutual, Lindsay Corporation and Nationwide.
On-stage, the Docker team also demonstrated Docker Applications, Docker Kubernetes Service (DKS) and new features and capabilities in Docker Desktop Enterprise – all designed to accelerate the application development and deployment pipeline. They keynote closed with a demonstration from R.O.S.I.E, the robot built by two Liberty Mutual engineers using Docker.
To learn first hand everything featured Continue reading
Your Kubernetes Agenda at DockerCon
Kubernetes has seen a rapid rise over the last few years and is becoming one of the most sought after skills. DockerCon is a great opportunity to get hands-on training from industry experts and hear from real customers who have deployed Kubernetes in production.
You’ll also have a chance to learn how Docker is the easiest way to get started with Kubernetes and attend sessions that describe how the Docker platform manages and secures applications on Kubernetes in multi-Linux, multi-OS and multi-cloud customer environments.
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Download your Kubernetes agenda and register now for DockerCon!
Expert-Led Workshops
Register soon as space is running out in these hands-on workshops!
- Kubernetes 101: Getting up and running with Kubernetes – Led by Nigel Poulton, Docker Captain and Pluralsight author and writer of several popular Docker and Kubernetes books
- Security Best Practices for Kubernetes – Led by Scott Coulton, Docker Captain and Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Customer Case Studies
Hear from Docker customers who are running Kubernetes in production.
- McKesson: Serving Cloud Native Developer Teams in a Highly Regulated Environment
- Visa: Kubernetes On-Premises Best Practices & Deploying Machine Learning Workloads Inside Visa
Technical Sessions
Learn about the inner workings of Kubernetes and the Continue reading
Top 5 Blog Post of 2018: Docker Enterprise 2.0 with Kubernetes
Day 2 of our top blog posts of 2018 and coming in at Number 4 is the launch of Docker Enterprise 2.0 (formerly Docker Enterprise Edition). Docker’s industry-leading container platform is the only platform that simplifies Kubernetes and manages and secures applications on Kubernetes in multi-Linux, multi-OS and multi-cloud customer environments. To learn more about our Docker Enterprise, read on…
We are excited to announce Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – a significant leap forward in our enterprise-ready container platform. Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 is the only platform that manages and secures applications on Kubernetes in multi-Linux, multi-OS and multi-cloud customer environments. As a complete platform that integrates and scales with your organization, Docker EE 2.0 gives you the most flexibility and choice over the types of applications supported, orchestrators used, and where it’s deployed. It also enables organizations to operationalize Kubernetes more rapidly with streamlined workflows and helps you deliver safer applications through integrated security solutions. In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the key new capabilities of Docker EE 2.0.
Eliminate Your Fear of Lock-in
As containerization becomes core to your IT strategy, the importance of having a platform Continue reading
The Top 6 Questions You Asked on Containerizing Production Apps
We recently hosted IDC research manager Gary Chen as a guest speaker on a webinar where he shared results from a recent IDC survey on container and container platform adoption in the enterprise. IDC data shows that more organizations are deploying applications into production using containers, driving the need for container platforms like Docker Enterprise that integrate broad management capabilities including orchestration, security and access controls.
The audience asked a lot of great questions about both the IDC data and containerizing production applications. We picked the top questions from the webinar and recapped them here.
If you missed the webinar, you can watch the webinar on-demand here.
Top Questions from the Webinar
Q: What are the IDC stats based on?
A: IDC ran a survey of 300+ container deployers from companies with more than 1,000 employees and have primary responsibility for container infrastructure in the US and modeled it from a variety of data sources they collect about the industry.
Q: IDC mentioned that 54% of containerized applications are traditional apps. Is there is simple ‘test’ to see if an app can be containerized easily?
Source: IDC, Container Infrastructure Market Assessment: Bridging Legacy and Cloud-Native Architectures — User Survey Continue reading
The Role of Enterprise Container Platforms
As container technology adoption continues to advance and mature, companies now recognize the importance of an enterprise container platform. More than just a runtime for applications, a container platform provides a complete management solution for securing and operationalizing applications in containers at scale over the entire software lifecycle.
While containers may have revolutionized the way developers package applications, container platforms are changing the way enterprises manage and secure both mission-critical legacy applications and microservices both on prem and across multiple clouds. Enterprises are beginning to see that container runtime and orchestration technologies alone don’t address these critical questions:
- Where did this application come from?
- Was the application built with company and/or industry best practices in mind?
- Has this application undergone a security review?
- Is my cluster performing as expected?
- If my application is failing or underperforming, where should I look?
- Will this environment run the same on the new hardware/cloud that we’re using?
- Can I use my existing infrastructure and/or tools with this container environment?
Leading Industry Analysts Highlight Container Platforms for Enterprise Adoption
For some time, there was a lot of confusion in the market between orchestration solutions and container platforms. But in 2018, we are seeing more alignment across major Continue reading
Top Questions from VMworld 2018
Last week, the Docker team had a chance to interact with the attendees of VMworld to talk about containers and container platforms. We spoke to companies in all stages of their containerization journey – some were just getting started and figuring out where containers may be used, others had started early containerization projects, some had mature container environments. Here are some of the most common questions we were asked.
Q: We have developers that are using Docker containers now, but what is the relevancy of containers to me (as an IT or virtualization admin)?
A: While developers were the first to adopt containers, there are many benefits of containers for IT:
- Server consolidation: While virtualization did increase the number of virtual machines per server, studies show that servers are still greatly underutilized. On average, Docker Enterprise customers see 50% greater server consolidation with containerization. That means being able to pack more workloads onto existing infrastructure or even reducing the number of servers and therefore saving on licensing and hardware costs.
- Easier patching and maintenance: Containerized applications can be updated easily through changes to the source image file. This also means it’s possible to update and rollback patches on the Continue reading
Are Containers Replacing Virtual Machines?
With 20,000 partners and attendees converging at VMworld in Las Vegas this week, we often get asked if containers are replacing virtual machines (VMs). Many of our Docker Enterprise customers do run their containers on virtualized infrastructure while others run it on bare metal. Docker provides IT and operators choice on where to run their applications – in a virtual machine, on bare metal, or in the cloud. In this blog we’ll provide a few thoughts on the relationship between VMs and containers.
Containers versus Virtual Machines
Point #1: Containers Are More Agile than VMs
At this stage of container maturity, there is very little doubt that containers give both developers and operators more agility. Containers deploy quickly, deliver immutable infrastructure and solve the age-old “works on my machine” problem. They also replace the traditional patching process, allowing organizations to respond to issues faster and making applications easier to maintain.
Point #2: Containers Enable Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption
Once containerized, applications can be deployed on any infrastructure – on virtual machines, on bare metal, and on various public clouds running different hypervisors. Many organizations start with running containers on their virtualized infrastructure and find it easier to then migrate to Continue reading
Learn More About Docker at VMworld 2018
The Docker team will be at VMworld in Las Vegas next week (Aug. 26-30) to interact with IT leaders and virtualization administrators and share the latest on Docker Enterprise – the leading enterprise-ready container platform that supports your choice of technology stacks, application types, operating systems and infrastructure. Register today to get a guided tour of Docker Enterprise.
Secure Your Legacy, Protect Your Future – See How Docker Works for Windows Server Migrations
Come by Booth #2513 near the Mobility Zone to learn more about container platforms and how Docker Enterprise is the only solution that can help IT migrate applications from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2016 – without recoding!
Windows Server 2008 is approaching End of Support which means security and maintenance patches will be discontinued. Don’t risk your business critical apps with an unpatched and unsupported operating system. Discover the simplest way to move off of Windows Server 2008 (and even Windows Server 2003) with a proven methodology using Docker Enterprise and purpose-built containerization. With Docker, you can:
- Eliminate legacy app security risks and improve reliability
- Make your apps portable and cloud-ready
- Cut costs by 50% from increased server consolidation and operational efficiencies
Stop by, talk to our Continue reading
DockerCon Guest Speaker: Liberty Mutual
In yesterday’s DockerCon keynote, Eric Drobisewski, Senior Architect at Liberty Mutual Insurance, shared how Docker Enterprise Edition has been a foundational technology for their digital transformation.
If you missed it, the replay of the keynote is available below:
Turning Disruption into Opportunities
Liberty Mutual – the 3rd largest property and casualty insurance provider in the United States – recognizes that the new digital economy is bringing a faster cycle of technology evolution. Disruptive technologies like autonomous vehicles and smart homes are changing the way customers interact and transact. Liberty Mutual sees these as opportunities to bring new services to market and ways to reinvent traditional insurance models, but they needed to become more flexible and agile while managing their technical debt.
Rapid Expansion of Docker EE
As a 106-year old company, Liberty Mutual recognized that they were not going to become agile overnight. Liberty Mutual has instead built a “multi-lane highway” that enables both traditional apps and new microservices apps to modernize at different speeds according to their needs, all based on Docker Enterprise Edition.
“(Docker Enterprise Edition) began to open multiple paths for our teams to modernize traditional applications and move them to the cloud in a Continue reading
Extending Kubernetes to Windows Server with Docker Enterprise Edition
Docker and Microsoft have been working together since 2014 to bring containers to Windows and .NET applications. Today at DockerCon, we share the next step in this partnership with the preview and demonstration of Kubernetes on Windows Server with Docker Enterprise Edition.
Docker and Microsoft Advance Windows Containers
Docker and Microsoft brought container technology into Windows Server 2016, ensuring consistency for the same Docker Compose file and CLI commands across both Linux and Windows. Windows Server ships with a Docker Enterprise Edition engine, meaning all Windows containers today are based on Docker. Recognizing that most enterprise organizations have both Windows and Linux applications in their environment, we followed that up in 2017 with the ability to manage mixed Windows and Linux clusters in the same Docker Enterprise Edition environment, enabling support for hybrid applications and driving higher efficiencies and lower overhead for organizations. Using Swarm orchestration, operations teams could support different application teams with secure isolation between them, while also allowing Windows and Linux containers to communicate over a common overlay network.
Since then, Docker has seen the rapid rise of Windows containers as organizations recognize the benefits of containerization and want to apply them across their entire application Continue reading
New Features of Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – Top 12 Questions from the Docker Virtual Event
In the recent Docker Virtual Event, Unveiling Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0, we demonstrated some of the key new capabilities of the Docker Enterprise Edition – the enterprise-ready container platform that enables IT leaders to choose how to cost-effectively build and manage their entire application portfolio at their own pace, without fear of architecture and infrastructure lock-in. Designed to address enterprise customers’ needs, these net-new features extend across both Swarm and Kubernetes (Part 1 of this blog) and across Windows and Linux applications (Part 2 of this blog).
In this blog post, we’ll go over some of the most common questions about these new features as well as some of the common questions that were asked about how Docker Enterprise Edition is packaged and deployed.
If you missed the live event, don’t worry! You can still catch the recording on-demand here.
Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 Features
Q: Can I connect my corporate directory to permissions inside Docker Enterprise Edition?
A: Yes! You can integrate your corporate LDAP or Active Directory to Docker Enterprise Edition. Permissions can be mapped to one of the 5 built-in roles or administrators can create very granular and flexible Continue reading
Windows Containers in Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – Top 7 Questions from the Docker Virtual Event
The recent Docker Virtual Event, Unveiling Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, gave us the opportunity to highlight some of the great reasons to adopt a containerization strategy across your entire application portfolio. In Part 1 of this blog, we covered some of the top questions we received about Swarm and Kubernetes orchestration in Docker Enterprise Edition – the world’s leading enterprise-ready container platform. Today, we will cover some of questions about running Windows containers.
If you missed the live event, don’t worry! You can still catch the recording on-demand here.
Docker Enterprise Edition: Only Fully-Supported Solution for Running Containers on Windows Server 2016
Q: I thought containers were based on Linux processes. How do Windows-based Docker containers work?
A: Docker has been partnering with Microsoft since 2014 to deliver all the same benefits of Docker containers to Windows Server so that customers can easily run .NET and IIS applications in Docker containers. We worked closely together on changes to the Windows Server kernel to support containerization primitives, added Windows Server support to the Docker Engine and CLI and added multi-architecture support for Windows images. The result is Docker containers run natively on Windows Server 2016, leveraging the Continue reading
Integrating Kubernetes with Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – Top 10 Questions from the Docker Virtual Event
At our recent virtual event, we shared our excitement around Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 – the most complete enterprise-ready container platform in the market. We shared how this release enables organizations like Liberty Mutual and Franklin American Mortgage Company, both presenters at DockerCon 2018, to efficiently scale their container environment across many teams while delivering choice and flexibility. We demonstrated some of the new advanced capabilities around access controls with secure application zones and building a consistent software supply chain across regions, and highlighted how easy and interchangeable it is to leverage both Swarm and Kubernetes orchestration in the same environment.
If you missed the live event, don’t worry! You can still catch the recording on-demand here.
We got great questions throughout the event and will address the most common ones in our blog over the next few days.
Choice of Orchestration – Swarm and Kubernetes
One of the highlights of this release is the integration of Kubernetes, making Docker EE the only platform that runs both Swarm and Kubernetes simultaneously on the same cluster – so developers do not need to make an orchestration choice. Operations teams have the flexibility to choose orchestrators interchangeably.
Q: Is Continue reading
A Secure Supply Chain for Kubernetes
With KubeCon EU happening in Copenhaguen, we looked back at the most popular posts with our readers on Docker and Kubernetes. For those of you that have yet to try Docker EE 2.0, this blog highlights how Docker EE 2.0 provides a secure supply chain for Kubernetes.
The GA release of the Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) container platform last month integrates Kubernetes orchestration, running alongside Swarm, to provide a single container platform that supports both legacy and new applications running on-premises or in the cloud. For organizations that are exploring Kubernetes or deploying it in production, Docker EE offers integrated security for the entire lifecycle of a containerized application, providing an additional layer of security before the workload is deployed by Kubernetes and continuing to secure the application while it is running.
Mike Coleman previously discussed access controls for Kubernetes. This week we’ll begin discussing how Docker EE secures the Kubernetes supply chain.
What is a Software Supply Chain?
When you purchase something from a retail store, there is an entire supply chain that gets the product from raw materials to the manufacturer to you. Similarly, there is a software supply chain that takes an application from Continue reading
A Secure Supply Chain for Kubernetes, Part 2
Two weeks ago we shared how the upcoming release of Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) is able to secure the software supply chain for Kubernetes; just as it does for Docker Swarm through a combination of scanning for vulnerabilities and implementing image promotion policies. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at another part of this solution – Docker Content Trust and image signing.
When combined with granular Role Based Access Controls [RBAC] and the secure clustering features of Docker EE, organizations get a secure container platform solution that is ready for the enterprise.
Restricting Unverified Kubernetes Content
As discussed in Part 1 of this blog post, organizations typically have a “supply chain” for how applications progress from a developer’s laptop to production, whether that is on-premises or in the cloud. For larger organizations, the team that handles QA and testing is not always the same team that develops the applications. There may also be a separate team that handles staging and pre-production before an application is pushed to production. Since an application can pass through several teams before it gets deployed, it’s important for organizations to be able to validate the source of the application.
A Secure Supply Chain for Kubernetes
The beta release of the Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) container platform last month integrates Kubernetes orchestration, running alongside Swarm, to provide a single container platform that supports both legacy and new applications running on-premises or in the cloud. For organizations that are exploring Kubernetes or deploying it in production, Docker EE offers integrated security for the entire lifecycle of a containerized application, providing an additional layer of security before the workload is deployed by Kubernetes and continuing to secure the application while it is running.
Mike Coleman previously discussed access controls for Kubernetes. This week we’ll begin discussing how Docker EE secures the Kubernetes supply chain.
What is a Software Supply Chain?
When you purchase something from a retail store, there is an entire supply chain that gets the product from raw materials to the manufacturer to you. Similarly, there is a software supply chain that takes an application from code on a developer’s laptop to production.
Every company’s software supply chain may be slightly different; some outsource software development, some have adopted Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes, and some deploy production applications across multiple clouds, some on-premises. Regardless of what the software supply chain consists of, Continue reading
Using Docker to Scale Operational Intelligence at Splunk
Splunk wants to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. With over 14,000 customers in 110 countries, providing the best software for visualizing machine data involves hours and hours of testing against multiple supported platforms and various configurations. For Mike Dickey, Sr. Director in charge of engineering infrastructure at Splunk, the challenge was that 13 different engineering teams in California and Shanghai had contributed to test infrastructure sprawl, with hundreds of different projects and plans that were all being managed manually.
At DockerCon Europe, Mike and Harish Jayakumar, Docker Solutions Engineer, shared how Splunk leveraged Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) to dramatically improve build and deployment times on their test infrastructure, converge on a unified Continuous Integration (CI) workflow, and how they’ve now grown to 600 bare-metal servers deploying tens of thousands of Docker containers per day.
You can watch the entire session here:
Hitting the Limits of Manual Test Configurations
As Splunk has grown, so has their customers’ use of their software. Many Splunk customers now process petabytes of data, and that has forced Splunk to scale their testing to match. That means more infrastructure needs to be reserved in the shared test environment Continue reading