#SwarmWeek: Realtime Cluster Monitoring with Docker Swarm and Riemann

Lately I’ve become fascinated with Riemann, a piece of software written in Clojure for the purpose of supervising the health of distributed systems. Created by Kyle Kingsbury (a.k.a. aphyr) of Jepsen fame, Riemann is a powerful tool for montioring, processing, … Continued

Docker Machine 0.3.0 Deep Dive

blog post written by Nathan LeClaire, Open Source Engineer at Docker We recently released Docker Machine 0.3.0. I am a maintainer on the project, and I want to share with you some of the goodness that we have been working … Continued

Only Two Weeks Left to Sign Up For The First Public Docker Training

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