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
Notes from the 2016 Ansible Community Survey
We recently ran the 2016 version of our Ansible Community Survey. This is a survey of Ansible users and community members, regarding how they're using Ansible in their environments. We thought it would be useful to share some of the aggregate results. (As we did not ask for permission to distribute individual responses, we cannot make the raw data public.)
We had over 1,600 survey respondents, up from 1,300 when we last ran the survey in March of 2015.
| How long have you been using Ansible? |
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| Answer Options |
Response Percent |
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| A month or less |
7.8% |
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| 1-2 months |
7.3% |
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| 2-6 months |
18.8% |
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| 6-12 months |
18.6% |
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| over a year |
47.4% |
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| number of respondents |
1,625 |
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Ansible continues to grow more veteran users - when surveyed in 2015, only 30% of respondents had used Ansible for more than a year.
| What version(s) of Ansible are you currently running? |
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| Answer Options |
Response Percent |
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| pre-1.9.x |
5.0% |
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| 1.9.x |
27.8% |
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| 2.0.x |
41.6% |
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| 2.1.x |
51.4% |
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| 2.2/development |
6.7% |
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| number of respondents |
1,623 |
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Note that respondents could pick multiple versions. All told, 80% of respondents have at least some usage of Ansible 2. Continue reading
Open vSwitch Now a Linux Foundation Project
News emerged today that Open vSwitch (OVS) has formally moved over to the Linux Foundation. This is something that has been discussed within the OVS community for a while, and I for one am glad to see it happen.
Why am I glad to see it happen? The project can finally shed itself of the (unfair) claims that the governance under Nicira (and later VMware) wasn’t “open enough.” These accusations persisted despite numerous indications otherwise. Thomas Graf, an OVS committer—who does not work for VMware, for the record—came to this conclusion in his OVSCon 2015 presentation:
OVS is one of the most effective and well governed open source projects I’ve worked on.
Moving to the Linux Foundation allows OVS to continue to grow and flourish without continued accusations of unfair governance. The project intends to continue to use its existing governance model, in which technical leadership of the project is determined by the committers, and committer status is determined by your involvement in the project via code contributions and code reviews.
For more information, refer to the official Linux Foundation press release.
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.
The core team also wanted to give a Continue reading
Spousetivities at VMworld 2016
Many of you have asked, and here’s the answer: Yes, there will be Spousetivities at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, NV! For those of you who may be new to the VMworld scene, Spousetivities started in 2008 when my wife got together with a small group of spouses and partners traveling with the conference attendees. From there, it’s become a staple of the VMworld community events. Read on for more details on what’s planned this year at VMworld 2016!
- First up is the famous “Getting to Know You” breakfast, but with a slightly different approach. This year you’ll be cooking breakfast with Chef Phillip Dell, winner of season 9 of “Chopped”. How cool is that?
- There will be a walking tour of the Las Vegas Strip, in case there are folks that are new to Vegas.
- A trip to the Grand Canyon is available. If you haven’t yet been to the Grand Canyon, this is a great way to go—private bus, meals along the way, etc. Much easier than planning such a trip yourself!
- Of course, you’ll have the opportunity to see the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead.
- Here’s a new one: a 2-4 mile easy hike up Mount Continue reading
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.
Technology Short Take #69
Welcome to Technology Short Take #69! In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. This episode is a bit long; sorry about that!
Networking
- Lindsay Hill recently noted that he’s been working to add support to netmiko for the Brocade ICX and MLXe, and is looking into support for VDX. Netmiko, if you haven’t heard, is a fantastic Python library that’s really useful when writing Python-based network automation scripts.
- I mentioned a while back that I was taking a deeper look at MPLS (to which my colleague Bruce Davie—one of the creators of MPLS—jokingly quipped, “Why are you looking at legacy tech?”). Honestly, I haven’t had a great deal of time to make much progress, but I did come across this article by Sudeep Goyal which helped reinforce some of the basics I already knew. It may prove useful to others who are also seeking to improve their knowledge of MPLS.
- Peter Phaal has been writing some really interesting stuff (interesting to me, at least). First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). I’m really eager to Continue reading