Introducing the Docker Authorized Partner Program

Today the Docker team is excited to announce a new tiered Docker Partner Program to address the growing demand by companies to adopt Containers as a Service environments with Docker Datacenter.  This enhanced program provides end-to end support for a community of Resellers, Regional Consulting partners, Global Systems Integrators and Federal Systems Integrators.

Since the launch of Docker over three years ago, there has been tremendous adoption from the developer community of Docker container technology to accelerate their development and CI workflows. Companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 in healthcare, financial services, mobile apps and more are leaning on Docker to transform their application pipeline by containerizing legacy and new microservices applications.  As companies embark on their Docker journey, they are looking to their business partners to assist them in developing a business case, understand the functionality, architect use cases and deploy the environments.

New Program, Training and Resources

Containerization is the next catalyst for transformation in application infrastructure. The Docker Partner Program is designed to help partners build a successful “Docker practice” rooted in best practices, technical expertise and as extension of their expertise in cloud technologies, Software Defined Datacenter and converged infrastructure.

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New Dockercast Episode with Docker Captain, Nirmal Mehta

In case you missed it, we recently launched Dockercast, the official Docker Podcast including all the DockerCon 2016 sessions available as podcast episodes.

In this podcast I catch up with Nirmal Mehta at Booz Allen Hamilton.  Nirmal has been a big part of the Docker community and is also a Docker Captain.

Nirmal works with some large government organizations and we discussed why these types of institutions seemed to be early adopters of Docker.  As most would answer, speed was an obvious driver, however, we discuss that security was also an early driver.  Turns out due to tighter boundaries of Docker containers some of these organizations felt that the potential security opportunities stretched better than virtualization.  We discuss these ideas as well as what is it like to be a Docker Captain.

You can find the latest #Dockercast episodes on the Itunes Store or via the SoundCloud RSS feed.

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Docker at Tech Field Day 2016

Save the date!  This coming Thursday Docker is excited to host the delegates of Cloud Field Day at our headquarters for a deep dive into the Docker platform. Cloud Field Day is part of a series of Tech Field Day events that bring together technology companies and IT thought leaders to talk shop with technology and insights.

Cloud Field Day will be live and in person at Docker HQ but anyone can join in by participating in the live stream.  Docker will be featured at 1pm on Thursday Sept 15th. Join us by visiting the Cloud Field Day event page.

Cloud field day is just one in a series of Tech Field Day sessions coordinated by IT industry veterans Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth. Learn more about the whole Tech Field Day series here.

ICYMI:  Our very own Mike Coleman, spoke at the Tech Field Day Express at VMworld.  In this one hour session, Mike walked a group of vExperts through an introduction to containers, what the new end to end application workflow looks like and an overview of Docker 1.12 with built in orchestration.

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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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The 4 Biggest Questions About Docker from VMworld 2016

Simply incredible. We spent last week at VMworld speaking with thousands of enterprise security, infrastructure and virtualization pros. It was humbling to witness all of the curiosity and excitement around Docker at the show, and how Docker clearly made a strong impression on the attendees.

This curiosity around Docker and its use within enterprise environments is the reason why i’m writing this blog. We noticed that there were many of the same questions that arose, and we figured we should share them with you, as you start your journey towards adopting Docker containers and VMs.

Here are the most commonly asked questions from the conference.

1. What is Docker? Or even a container? Is it a lightweight VM? Can I use it with vSphere? What value do they provide?

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— Karen Lopez (@datachick) August 29, 2016

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Your Guide to ContainerCamp UK

#ContainerCamp UK kicks off tomorrow in the heart of London’s Piccadilly and we can hardly contain our excitement. There are loads of Docker talks that you won’t want to miss!

Friday, September 9th

9:55 am: Ben Firshman, Director of Product Management at Docker – Building serverless apps with Docker

Everyone’s talking about serverless right now. For good reason – it’s makes distributed apps much simpler to build, scale, and maintain. In this session, Ben will demonstrate how you can use Docker to mix in serverless techniques – right now – and how serverless is going to change how you build distributed apps in the future.

11:15 am: Nishant Totla, Docker Software Engineer – Orchestrating Linux containers while tolerating failures

Management of containers in production requires special care in order to keep the application up and running. In this session, learn the mechanisms and architecture of the Docker Engine orchestration platform (using a framework called swarmkit) to tolerate failures of services and machines, from cluster state replication and leader-election to container re-scheduling logic when a host goes down.

12:35 pm Lightening Talk: #DockerCaptain Nicholas Deloof – Continuous delivery in a container world

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Your Docker Agenda for September

From webinars to workshops, meetups to conference talks, September is packed with lots of Docker events. Check out the list of upcoming events sorted by continent below:

Official Docker Training Courses

Introduction to Docker: This is a two-day, on-site or classroom-based training course which introduces you to the Docker platform and takes you through installing, integrating, and running it in your working environment.

Sep 5-6: Introduction to Docker with Luis Herrera – Docker Captain – Madrid, Spain

Sep 12-13: Introduction to Docker with Contino – London, United Kingdom

Sep 15-16: Introduction to Docker with AKRA – Hamburg, Germany

Sep 19-20: Introduction to Docker with Alterway – St. Cloud, France

Docker Administration and Operations: The Docker Administration and Operations course consists of both the Introduction to Docker course, followed by the Advanced Docker Topics course, held over four consecutive days.

Sep 12-15: Docker Administration and Operations with Luis Herrera – Docker Captain – Madrid, Spain

Sep 15-18: Docker Administration and Operations with AKRA – Hamburg, Germany

Sep 19-23: Docker Administration and Operations with Amazic – Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands

Sep 20-23: Docker Administration and Operations with Vizuri – Austin, TX

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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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Docker Online Meetup #42: Docker Captains Share Tips & Tricks for Using Docker 1.12

For this week’s Docker Online Meetup, Docker Captains Ajeet Singh Raina, Viktor Farcic and Bret Fisher shared their tips and tricks for built In Docker orchestration.

Ajeet talked about the best ways to use Docker 1.12 Service Discovery and shared key takeaways. Viktor talked about best practices for setting a Swarm cluster and integrating it with HAProxy. Bret concluded the meetup with a presentation on Docker 1.12 command options and aliases including cli aliases for quick container management; the shortest path to secure production-ready swarm; how to use cli filters for easier management of larger swarms; and docker remote cli security setup.

• Best ways to use Docker 1.12 Service Discovery by Docker Captain Ajeet Raina

• Scaling and clustering with Docker Swarm by Docker Captain Viktor Farcic
• Docker cli Tips and Tricks by Docker Captain Bret Fisher

Want to learn more about Docker 1.12 and orchestration? Check out these resources:

• Docker 1.12.1 on Raspberry Pi 3 in 5 minutes by Docker Captain Ajeet Singh Raina
• Docker Docs: Understand Docker container network
• Docker 1.12 Release Notes
• Docker Blog: Docker 1.12: Now With Built-In Orchestration!
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New Dockercast episode with Avi Cavale from Shippable

In case you missed it, we launched Dockercast, the official Docker Podcast earlier this month including all the DockerCon 2016 sessions available as podcast episodes.

In this podcast episode, we catch up with Avi Cavale the Co-founder & CEO at Shippable. We start off with a conversation where I ask him why he thinks there has been such an explosion of Docker adoption.  This leads us into the the ideas behind immutable infrastructure and immutable delivery models. Avi discusses how Shippable has focused on making the delivery pipeline easier for developers.

We also discuss some anti-patterns he calls Frankenstein Continuous Integration (CI) where, although Jenkins is awesome, the glue to put a robust CI system together can be reasonably complex. What Shippable tried to do is abstract away some of those complexities for developers.  We end up talking about different Docker patterns Shippable is seeing in the industry.

You can find the latest #Dockercast episodes on the Itunes Store or via the SoundCloud RSS feed.

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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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Docker Labs Repo Continues to Grow

Back in May, we launched the Docker Labs repo in an effort to provide the community with a central place to both learn from and contribute to Docker tutorials. We now have 16 separate labs and tutorials, with 16 different contributors, both from Docker and from the community. And it all started with a birthday party.

Back in March, Docker celebrated it’s third birthday with more than 125 events around the world to teach new users how to use Docker. The tutorial was very popular, and we realized people would like this kind of content. So we migrated it to the labs repository as a beginner tutorial. Since then, we’ve added tutorials on using .NET and Windows containers, Docker for Java developers, our DockerCon labs and much more.

Today we wanted to call out a new series of tutorials on developer tools. We’re starting with three tutorials for Java Developers on in-container debugging strategies. Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows introduced improved volume management, which allows you to debug live in a container while using your favorite IDE.

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Docker Online Meetup #41: Deep Dive into Docker 1.12 Networking

For this week’s Docker Online Meetup, Sr. Director, Networking at Docker, Madhu Venugopal, joined us to talk about Docker 1.12 Networking and answer questions.

Starting with Docker 1.12, Docker has added features to the core Docker Engine to make multi-host and multi-container orchestration simple to use and accessible to everyone. Docker 1.12 Networking plays a key role in enabling these orchestration features.

In this online meetup, we learned all the new and exciting networking features introduced in Docker 1.12:

• Swarm-mode networking
• Routing Mesh
• Ingress and Internal Load-Balancing
• Service Discovery
• Encrypted Network Control-Plane and Data-Plane
• Multi-host networking without external KV-Store
• MACVLAN Driver

The number of questions Madhu got at the end of the online meetup was amazing and because he did not have time to answer all of them, we’ve added the rest of the Q&A below:

Q: Will you address the DNS configuration in Docker? We have two apps created with docker compose and would like to enable communication and DNS resolution from containers in one of the apps to containers in the other app.

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The Dockerizing of VMworld 2016

Docker’s adoption continues to grow in the enterprise. There have been over 5 billion images pulls, and 60% of users are running Docker in production environments. Today Docker is run everywhere – from development to production; in the cloud, on virtual machines and bare-metal servers. Enterprise application teams around the world are seeing the value of Docker containers and how they help them containerize their existing applications to save money and better utilize infrastructure resources.

To get the latest with Docker and vms stop by our Docker booth #2362 at VMworld. Containers and vms are different but are complementary when it comes to application deployment. With their ability to optimize infrastructure resources, accelerate deployment and provide additional security, Docker containers bring some serious benefits to virtualized workloads within enterprise environments. Additionally, a Dockerized workload gains portability as containers move from VMs or bare metal systems, on prem or in the cloud. That same platform serves as the foundation for your new microservices applications as well.

The Docker booth experience you won’t want to miss:

Live demos – Three live  demos will be featured in the booth, including:

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Securing the Enterprise Software Supply Chain Using Docker

At Docker we have spent a lot of time discussing runtime security and isolation as a core part of the container architecture. However that is just one aspect of the total software pipeline. Instead of a one time flag or setting, we need to approach security as something that occurs at every stage of the application lifecycle. Organizations must apply security as a core part of the software supply chain where people, code and infrastructure are constantly moving, changing and interacting with each other.

If you consider a physical product like a phone, it’s not enough to think about the security of the end product. Beyond the decision of what kind of theft resistant packaging to use, you might want to know  where the materials are sourced from and how they are assembled, packaged, transported. Additionally it is important to ensure that  the phone is not tampered with or stolen along the way.

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Your Software is Safer in Docker Containers

The Docker security philosophy is Secure by Default. Meaning security should be inherent in the platform for all applications and not a separate solution that needs to be deployed, configured and integrated.

Today, Docker Engine supports all of the isolation features available in the Linux kernel. Not only that, but we’ve supported a simple user experience by implementing default configurations that provide greater protection for applications running within the Docker Engine, making strong security default for all containerized applications while still leaving the controls with the admin to change configurations and policies as needed.

But don’t take our word for it.  Two independent groups have evaluated Docker Engine for you and recently released statements about the inherent security value of Docker.

Gartner analyst Joerg Fritsch recently published a new paper titled How to Secure Docker Containers in Operation on this blog post.  In it Fritsch states the following:

“Gartner asserts that applications deployed in containers are more secure than applications deployed on the bare OS” because even if a container is cracked “they greatly limit the damage of a successful compromise because applications and users are isolated on a per-container basis so that they cannot compromise other containers or the host OS”.

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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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Your Docker Agenda for LinuxCon North America

Hey Dockers! We’re excited to be back at LinuxCon this year in Toronto and hope you are, too! We’ve a got a round-up of many of our awesome Docker speakers, as well as a booth. Come visit us in between the sessions at booth #41 inside “The Hub”. You may even be able to score yourself some Docker swag.

Monday:

11:45am – Curious about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Foundry Foundation and their role in the cloud ecosystem? Docker’s Stephen Walli joins other panelists to deliver So CFF, CNCF, and OCI Walk into a Room (or ‘Demystifying the Confusion: CFF, CNCF, OCI).

3:00pm – Docker Captain Phil Estes will describe and demonstrate the use of the new schema format’s capabilities for multiple platform-specific image references in his More than x86_64: Docker Images for Multi-Platform session.

4:20 pm – Join Docker’s Mike Coleman for Containers, Physical, and virtual, Oh My! insight on what points businesses need to consider as they decide how and where to run their Docker containers.

Tuesday:

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New Dockercast episode with Ilan Rabinovitch from Datadog

In case you missed it, we launched Dockercast, the official Docker Podcast earlier this month including all the DockerCon 2016 sessions available as podcast episodes.

In this podcast we talk to Ilan Rabinovitch the Director of Technical Community at Datadog.  I first met Ilan back at SCALE8X (Southern California Linux Expo) 6 years ago.  Ilan has been running SCALE since it’s inception.  

As Ilan points out in the podcast, our very own Jérôme Petazzoni packed the house back at SCALE11x (2013).  At Datadog Ilan has been working with the Docker community on monitoring containers and developing what Datadog calls their Monitoring-as-a-Service offering that combines Docker metadata and Docker container monitoring information.  Ilan discusses some of the differences of monitoring containers versus virtual machines. We also talk about Datadog’s adoption surveys highlighting the unprecedented  “wildfire” adoption of technology unseen since Linux and Apache.  Hope you enjoy our conversation.

You can find the latest #Dockercast episodes on the Itunes Store or via the SoundCloud RSS feed.

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Apply for a Docker Scholarship and learn how to code!

Today, Docker is proud to announce the launch of the Docker Scholarship Program in partnership with Reactor Core to improve opportunities for underrepresented groups in the tech industry! With the help of the community, we surpassed our goal for the DockerCon 2016 Bump Up Challenge unlocking $50,000 to fund three full tuition scholarships.

The Docker Scholarship Program is part of our continued work to improve opportunities for women and underrepresented groups throughout the global Docker ecosystem and encourage inclusivity in the larger tech community.

Docker’s Goal

The goal of the Docker scholarship program is to strengthen the broader tech community by making it more diverse and inclusive to traditionally underrepresented groups. We aim to achieve that goal by providing financial support and mentorship to three students at Reactor Core’s partner schools, Hack Reactor and Telegraph Academy.

Our Partnership with Hack Reactor and Telegraph Academy

Docker believes in the power of innovation and pushing our current technological boundaries. As a driver of innovation, we embrace our role in  advancing opportunities for underrepresented groups in the tech industry. Hack Reactor and Telegraph Academy share in our vision of empowering people and creating more opportunities for every member of our community. Continue reading