Using Docker Datacenter for Enterprise-Ready Orchestration – The SA Home Loans Story
Orchestration for dockerized applications in production has been a huge reason for why today’s enterprises have begun to leverage Docker Datacenter.
Universal Control Plane, the management layer of the Docker Container-as-a-Service platform delivers production-level orchestration. The tool enables enterprise IT ops teams to manage, deploy and scale their applications across their multi-node clusters. These clusters can be comprised of nodes that exist both in cloud providers like Azure and AWS as well as in the datacenter. Universal Control Plane comes with Docker Swarm embedded into it, giving it the power to create clusters and scale applications across their environment, regardless of infrastructure type, all with support from the Docker team.
DockerCon 2016: It’s going be a whale of a time!
There is only one week left until DockerCon 2016 and we can’t contain our excitement for all of the new fun additions we have added to this year’s conference! With all of these amazing activities lined up, DockerCon is going to be one whale of a time. Below is just a teaser of the exciting things to come. Continue reading
Open Forum Track at DockerCon 2016 Includes Curated and Open BoF Sessions and Panels!
Ready for another new addition to DockerCon this year?
The Open Forum track is brand new to this year’s conference agenda! This room is our unique version of hybrid Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and interactive panel discussions. The goal is for a highly interactive conversational room around some guided topics. Be sure to stop in at some point during the conference and let us know what you think!
Docker and HPE: Accelerating modern app architectures in enterprise datacenters
Docker has evolved tremendously over the last 3 years to empower developers and IT operations teams to maintain greater control over their own environments without sacrificing agility. From an ops tool used by the original dotCloud team, to Docker’s commercially supported Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform, Docker Datacenter (DDC), Docker has been at the forefront of this evolution.
Today we are excited to announce the next evolution in the Docker story providing enterprises with infrastructure optimized for the Docker platform with the leading provider of cloud infrastructure – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Together, Docker and HPE will deliver integrated and fully supported Docker ready HPE x86 servers, bundled with Docker’s commercially supported Engine (CS Engine) right out of the box.
DockerCon 2016’s General Sessions Will Be Livestreamed
DockerCon 2016 is sold out but we are thrilled to announce that the General Sessions on both Day 1 and Day 2 of DockerCon will be livestreamed! Continue reading
Meet the #DockerVideo Contest Winners!
It has been a fun two weeks since we launched the #DockerVideo contest. Thank you for all the submissions, likes and retweets but most importantly, thanks for being part of the Docker for Mac and Windows beta. Continue reading
Your Docker Agenda for HPE Discover 2016
This week HPE will host over 10,000 IT executives, architects, engineers, partners and thought-leaders from around the world at HPE Discover 2016, June 7-9th in Las Vegas.
Come visit Docker in Booth #213 to learn how Docker’s Containers-as-a-Service platform is transforming modern application infrastructures, allowing business to benefit from a more agile development environment.
DockerCon Hands-on Labs
At last year’s DockerCon EU 2015, we offered Hands-on Labs to attendees for the first time and the feedback was really positive! So much so, we are stoked to announce that we’re bringing them back for DockerCon 2016 coming up in Seattle on June 19-21.
Open Source at Docker, Part 2: The Processes
The Docker open source project is among the most successful in recent history by every possible metric: number of contributors, GitHub stars, commit frequency, … Managing an open source project at that scale and preserving a healthy community doesn’t come … ContinuedTechnology Short Take #67
Welcome to Technology Short Take #67. Here’s hoping something I’ve collected for you here proves useful!
Networking
- Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. More information on the script is in his blog post.
- Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Is it necessary? Russ thinks so—but probably not for the reasons you might think. I tend to agree with Russ’ line of thinking.
- This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. It’s a bit of a hack, to be honest, but it gets the job done until dynamic routing makes its way into OpenStack Neutron (which looks like it may have landed in the Mitaka release—can anyone confirm?).
- Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers.
- Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL.
- Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments.
Servers/Hardware
- Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, Continue reading
Your Docker Agenda for June
June is finally here, which means that DockerCon 2016 in Seattle, WA is just over two weeks away! We’re down to the last tickets and we will sell out this week – make sure to register today if you want … ContinuedVideo + Slides on Docker Cloud from Docker SF Meetup
Last week, members of the Docker SF Meetup community joined us at Docker HQ for a special Meetup event led by our Docker Cloud team. The evening consisted of demos given by the Docker Cloud engineers and a lightning presented by Jobstart. … ContinuedAnnouncing the Final Speakers for DockerCon 2016
We are happy to announce the final round of DockerCon speakers! But first, a big thank you to everyone who submitted a speaking proposal! It was a difficult task for the DockerCon Review Committee to select the final conference sessions … ContinuedDocker 101: Getting to Know Docker
At Docker, we strive to create tools of mass innovation. But what exactly is Docker? And how can it benefit both your developers looking to build applications quickly and your IT team looking to manage the IT environment? As part of … ContinuedSpousetivities at DockerCon 2016
Long-time readers of my site know that my wife, Crystal, launched what is now known as Spousetivities at VMworld 2008. Since that time, she’s been able to organize activities for hundreds of companions at dozens of events around the world. This year she’s adding another event to the roster: DockerCon 2016 in Seattle!
That’s right, Crystal and Spousetivities will be available at DockerCon in Seattle. Here’s a quick look at some of the things she’s got planned:
- Morning yoga on both Monday and Tuesday (both days of the conference), led by a Docker employee
- Food tour plus a visit to Woodland Park Zoo (great option for attendees traveling with kids)
- Tours of Seattle on both Monday and Tuesday, including stops at the Space Needle, Pioneer Square, Pike Place Market, and the Kerry Park scenic overlook.
- Wine and chocolate tastings plus a visit to Sqonalmie Falls
All in all, it sounds like a great set of activities. Also, I’m very impressed that DockerCon is also offering childcare during the event. Between Spousetivities offering kid-friendly events both days and DockerCon providing childcare, there’s no reason not to bring the family with you to Seattle.
If you’re interested in signing up for any Continue reading
Podcast Update
As many of you probably know, I launched a new podcast, called the Full Stack Journey Podcast, back in January. (Here’s the blog post announcing the new podcast.) In this post, I wanted to provide a quick update on the podcast.
Dedicated Website Now Up
First, the podcast now has its own website! Like this site, the Full Stack Journey site is a Jekyll-powered site hosted on GitHub (here’s the site’s repository). I find the Jekyll+GitHub Pages workflow works really well for me, so leveraging the same workflow for the Full Stack Journey site—as opposed to using WordPress or some other CMS—will (hopefully) help make it easier to continue to produce and publish the podcast.
Late Episodes Available
The effort involved in getting the dedicated site up took up a fair amount of time over the last few weeks. This leads me to the second point, which is that I’ve published episode #4 with Brent Salisbury, and will soon (in the next few days) be publishing episode #5 with Patrick Kelso. These episodes are very late (sorry!). June’s episode shouldn’t be as late, and I’m aiming to be back on track with an early July Continue reading
Open Source at Docker, Part 1: The People
The Docker open source project is among the most successful in recent history by every possible metric: number of contributors, GitHub stars, commit frequency, etc. Managing an open source project at that scale and preserving a healthy community doesn’t come … ContinuedCongrats to the Winners of the DockerCon Diversity Scholarship!
The DockerCon team is excited to announce the recipients of our inaugural DockerCon Diversity Scholarship Program! The DockerCon Diversity Scholarship aims to provide support and guidance to members of the Docker Community who are traditionally underrepresented through mentorship and a … ContinuedDocker Online Meetup #39: Docker Security
During this week’s Docker Online Meetup, Director of Security at Docker, Inc. Nathan McCauley joined us to discuss all things related to Docker security! The meetup started with Nathan presenting on securing the software supply chain with Docker (read this … ContinuedIntroducing Ansible 2.1: Networking, Windows, Azure, and Containers
I am pleased to announce the availability of Ansible version 2.1. Ansible 2.1 is Red Hat’s next major release since we pushed 2.0 in January. This new version adds a number of new features and fixes, and we’re excited to get it out into your hands. We’ve added key functionality in networking, took the beta tag off of our Microsoft Windows support, expanded our support for Microsoft Azure, enhanced our Docker containers support, and added a number of key internal features for ziploader and elsewhere.
On the networking front, we’ve included managing networking infrastructure as first-order feature set in Ansible--no separate download required. We previously released the Networking tech preview in February at AnsibleFest in London, and now it is fully integrated into Ansible as part of 2.1 Ansible’s agentless model works particularly well in the network management space, and with a lot of help and support from the vendors, we are very pleased to have our first major release with support for these features. Networking now includes support for:
- Cisco
- HP Enterprise
- Juniper
- Arista Networks
- Cumulus Networks
In the Microsoft world, we significantly upped our game for both Windows and Azure Cloud. We’re happy to Continue reading