5 Minutes with the Docker Captains
Docker Captain is a distinction that Docker awards select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. Captains are Docker ambassadors (not Docker employees) and their genuine love of all things Docker has a huge impact on the Docker community – whether they are blogging, writing books, speaking, running workshops, creating tutorials and classes, offering support in forums, or organizing and contributing to local events – they make Docker’s mission of democratizing technology possible. Whether you are new to Docker or have been a part of the community for awhile, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Docker Captains with your challenges, questions, speaking requests and more.
Docker Weekly | Roundup
This week, we’re taking a look at how to quickly create a Docker swarm cluster, setup a mail forwarder on Docker, and better understand the new Docker 1.12.0 load-balancing feature. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of August 7, 2016:
Docker Hub Hits 5 Billion Pulls
Last week, the total number of image pulls from the Docker Hub Repository Service reached 5 billion. That’s an increase of 150% since just February. It’s pretty amazing for a three year old project. Docker Hub has become a part of the daily life of developers because it
Docker Online Meetup # 41: Docker Captains Share their Tips and Tricks for Built In Docker Orchestration
It’s been nearly two weeks since Docker released Docker 1.12 as generally available for production environments, introducing a number of new features and concepts to the Docker project. Our #DockerCaptain team has already started to dig in and share their learnings with the community via blog posts, talks and peer-to-peer help. Docker Captains are technology experts who have been awarded the distinction of being a Docker Captain in part because of their passion for sharing their Docker knowledge with others. So, we’ve invited three of our Docker Captains to speak at the next Docker Online Meetup on August 31st and share their tips and tricks for using Docker 1.12. Continue reading
Docker SF Meetup #47; Docker 1.12, Docker for Mac and Tugbot
On Wednesday members of the Docker SF Meetup community joined us at Docker HQ for our 47th Docker meetup in San Francisco! It was a great evening with talks and demos from Docker’s own Ben Bonnefoy, Nishant Totla, as well as Neil Gehani from HPE.
Continuous Integration Testing on Docker Cloud
This is a guest post by Stephen Pope & Kevin Kaland from Project Ricochet
Docker Cloud is a SaaS solution hosted by Docker that gives teams the ability to easily manage, deploy, and scale their Dockerized applications.
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Weekly Docker Roundup: 5 Stories You Don’t Want to Miss
This week, we take a look into the Docker 1.12 native integration of Swarm Mode, debug Dockerized .NET core apps with VS Code, and learn why Docker CEO Ben Golub is leading the charge as the #1 IT disruptor. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of July 31, 2016:
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Introducing Dockercast – the Docker Podcast
Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Dockercast the official Docker Podcast. The Docker and container ecosystem is moving fast and it can be hard to catch up with the latest projects or features. Podcasts is an efficient medium for getting up to the speed with the latest news from the ecosystem on-demand. Now you can catch up wherever you are by playing or downloading Docker podcast episodes directly to your phone, laptop or tablet.
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Announcing Docker 1.12 Hackathon winners
The judges have deliberated, our community has voted, and the results are in! We are happy to announce the top 5 submissions of the Docker 1.12 Hackathon.
In case you missed it, the theme of the hackathon was to build, ship, and run a distributed software application using a release candidate of Docker 1.12. We encouraged participants to hack the new features included in Docker 1.12, such as: Swarm Mode, Cryptographic node identity, Service API, and Build-in routing mesh.
Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Most Popular Posts
This week, our readers enjoyed some big Docker news, including the great milestone of making Docker 1.12, Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows generally available for production environments, answers to the ten most often asked Docker questions and more. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of July 24, 2016:
Happy Infrastructure Engineers + System Administrator Appreciation Day!
To celebrate National Infrastructure Engineers and System Administrators Day, we asked the IT pros to tweet us their tips and tricks. After narrowing the submissions to five — here are the top shared life hacks in 140 characters (or less).
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Your Docker Agenda in August
From webinars to workshops, meetups to conference talks, check out our list of events that are coming up in August!
Docker Built-in Orchestration Ready for Production: Docker 1.12 Goes GA
We wanted to thank everyone in the community for helping us achieve this great milestone of making Docker 1.12 generally available for production environments. Docker 1.12 adds the largest and most sophisticated set of features into a single release since the beginning of the Docker project. Dozens of engineers, both Docker employees and external contributors, have made substantial contributions to every aspect of 1.12 orchestration including core algorithms, integration into the Docker Engine, documentation and testing.
We’re very grateful to the community, which has helped us with feedback, bug reports and new ideas. We couldn’t have done it without the help in particular of the tens of thousands of Docker for Mac and Windows beta users who have been testing our 1.12 features since DockerCon in June. We’ve seen contributions ranging from bash tab completion to UX up-and-down votes that helped us understand what users want most. Compared to what we unveiled at DockerCon, we’ve ended up with significant improvements in the swarm node join workflow (it’s simpler), error reporting (easier to view), UX improvements (more logical), networking (fixed reliability issues) etc.
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Docker for Mac and Windows is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
Today, we are excited to announce that Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows are graduating from beta and are now stable and ready for production.
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Docker Community Spotlight: Docker Paris Meetup Group
Since starting the Docker Paris Meetup group in October 2013, Patrick Aljord and Adrien Blind have organized 42 events (coincidence? We think not!) for a group of +3,300 members. Patrick and Adrien’s contributions have been essential for fostering an enthusiastic and active Docker community in Paris.
The 10 Most Common Questions IT Admins ask About Docker
Over the past few months we have attended a string of industry tradeshow events, helping to teach the enterprise world about Docker. We were at HPE Discover, DockerCon, RedHat Summit and Cisco Live all within the past 6weeks! I had the pleasure of helping to represent Docker at each of these awesome events and got to speak with attendees about Docker for the enterprise.
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National Infrastructure Engineers / System Administrator Appreciation Day
National Infrastructure Engineers / System Administrator Appreciation Day is just around the corner. Each year, on the last Friday in July we praise the heroes that keep our organizations running smoothly.
Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Most Popular Blog Posts
This week, our readers have enjoyed Docker thought leadership on various topics. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read blog posts for the week of July 17, 2016. Continue reading
Docker Online Meetup #40: Docker 1.12
During this week’s Docker Online Meetup, Product Managers at Docker, Inc. Mike Goelzer and Michael Friis joined us to talk about Docker 1.12 and answer questions.
It all started with Dockerizing an old version of Confluence with Docker Datacenter
This is a guest post by Shawn Bower
In my role as Cloud Architect I often hear, “Docker sounds great but it won’t work for my application.” In my experience Docker can improve the state of many applications including legacy and vendor solutions. The first production workload at Cornell on Docker was the University’s wiki which is run on Atlassian’s Confluence in April 2015.
Our installation of Confluence is an interesting intersection of legacy and vendor solution. We have customized the code, to work with our single sign on solution, as well as a custom synchronization with LDAP for group management. When we started the project to move Confluence to the cloud the infrastructure, the software was old, compiled from the source and was being hand maintained.
Our installation of Confluence is an interesting intersection of legacy and vendor solution. We have customized the code, to work with our single sign on solution, as well as a custom synchronization with LDAP for group management. When we started the project to move Confluence to the cloud the infrastructure, the software was old, compiled from the source and was being hand maintained.
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