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Docker Networking Tip – Troubleshooting

Debugging Container and Docker Networking issues can be daunting at first considering that containers do not contain any debug tools inside the container. I normally see a lot of questions around Docker networking issues in Docker and stackoverflow forum. All the usual networking tools can be used to debug Docker networking, it is just that … Continue reading Docker Networking Tip – Troubleshooting →

Docker Networking Tip – Load balancing options in Docker

I had promised earlier that I will continue my Docker Networking Tip series. This is second in that series. The first one on Macvlan driver can be found here. In this presentation, I have covered different load balance options with Docker. Following topics are covered in this presentation: Overview of Service Discovery and Load balancing … Continue reading Docker Networking Tip – Load balancing options in Docker →

Docker features for handling Container’s death and resurrection

Docker containers provides an isolated sandbox for the containerized program to execute. One-shot containers accomplishes a particular task and stops. Long running containers runs for an indefinite period till it either gets stopped by the user or when the root process inside container crashes. It is necessary to gracefully handle container’s death and to make … Continue reading Docker features for handling Container’s death and resurrection →

Docker Networking Tip – Macvlan driver

Last few months, I have been looking at Docker forums(https://forums.docker.com/, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/docker) and trying to understand some of the common questions/issues faced in the Docker Networking area. This prompted me to do 2 presentations: Docker Networking overview Docker Networking – Common issues and troubleshooting techniques I received positive feedback to these 2 presentations. As a next step, … Continue reading Docker Networking Tip – Macvlan driver →

Docker Networking -Common issues and Troubleshooting

Docker Bangalore meetup is a very active group dedicated to topics around Docker and the ecosystem around it. There was a meetup conducted yesterday at IBM office. There was a mix of topics presented including Moby, Linuxkit, Docker for Windows and Docker multi-stage builds. Thanks to Neependra for organizing the meetup, Neependra created this meetup … Continue reading Docker Networking -Common issues and Troubleshooting →

Docker CE – Installing Test(“RC”) version

Starting with Docker 17.03, Docker introduced Community edition(CE) and Enterprise edition(CE) version of their Docker software. The release numbering also changed. From Docker 1.13.1, we jump to 17.03 version. Docker CE is the free version while Docker EE is the commercially supported enterprise version. Docker enterprise edition comes in different flavors based on the cost. … Continue reading Docker CE – Installing Test(“RC”) version →

Comparing Docker deployment options in public cloud

Few weeks back, I did a presentation in Container conference, Bangalore comparing different solutions available to deploy Docker in the public cloud. Slides are available here. I have also put the steps necessary along with short video for each of the options in the github page here. Abstract of the talk: Containers provide portability for … Continue reading Comparing Docker deployment options in public cloud →

Comparing Docker compose versions

In this blog, I have captured some of my learnings on Docker compose files and how they differ between versions. Docker compose is a tool used for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. I have used the famous multi-container voting application to illustrate the differences with compose versions. Following are some questions that I have to … Continue reading Comparing Docker compose versions →

Kubernetes CRI and Minikube

Kubernetes CRI(Container runtime interface) is introduced in experimental mode in Kubernetes 1.15 release. Kubernetes CRI introduces a common Container runtime layer that allows for Kubernetes orchestrator to work with multiple Container runtimes like Docker, Rkt, Runc, Hypernetes etc. CRI makes it easy to plug in a new Container runtime to Kubernetes. Minikube project simplifies Kubernetes … Continue reading Kubernetes CRI and Minikube →

Docker 1.13 Experimental features

Docker 1.13 version got released last week. Some of the significant new features include Compose support to deploy Swarm mode services, supporting backward compatibility between Docker client and server versions, Docker system commands to manage Docker host and restructured Docker CLI. In addition to these major features, Docker introduced a bunch of experimental features in … Continue reading Docker 1.13 Experimental features →

Hybrid cloud recent solutions from Microsoft and VMWare – 2 different ends of the hybrid cloud spectrum

Public clouds have grown tremendously over the last few years and there are very few companies who do not use public cloud at this point. Even traditional enterprises with in-house data centers have some presence in the public cloud. I was looking at Amazon’s re:Invent conference details and I was amazed by the number of … Continue reading Hybrid cloud recent solutions from Microsoft and VMWare – 2 different ends of the hybrid cloud spectrum →

Devops in Networking presentation

This link has the slides that I presented as part of lightning talk at Devops Days India, 2016. In the slides, I have tried to capture how automation in networking area is evolving. I attended first day of the conference and it had a pretty decent collection of talks in Devops area.

Vault Overview

I have always loved Hashicorp’s Devops and cloud tools. I have used Vagrant, Consul, Terraform, Packer and Atlas before and I have written about few of them in my previous blogs. Vault is Hashicorp’s tool to manage secrets securely in a central location. Secret could be database credentials, AWS access keys, Consul api key, ssh … Continue reading Vault Overview →
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