Author: David Scott
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Unleash Docker Desktop 4.22: The Featherweight Heavy-Hitter for Supercharged Rapid Development
Docker Desktop has undergone significant optimizations, making it streamlined, lightweight, and faster than ever. Learn about performance enhancements in recent releases of Docker Desktop.
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Docker Desktop 4.21: Support for New Wasm Runtimes, Docker Init Support for Rust, Docker Scout Dashboard Enhancements, Builds View (Beta), and More
Docker Desktop 4.21 is now available and includes Docker Init support for Rust, new Wasm runtimes support, enhancements to Docker Scout dashboards, Builds view (Beta), performance and filesystem enhancements to Docker Desktop on macOS, and more. Docker Desktop in 4.21 also uses substantially less memory, allowing developers to run more applications simultaneously on their machines…
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Dockershim not needed: Docker Desktop with Kubernetes 1.24+
Docker Desktop includes Kubernetes, optimized and tuned for a fast, distraction-free developer experience. We track upstream Kubernetes changes and manage Kubernetes upgrades so developers can focus on their code rather than cluster administration. Lots of people have been asking us about the removal of a component called “dockershim” from upstream Kubernetes and how this will…
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How Docker Desktop Networking Works Under the Hood
Modern applications make extensive use of networks. At build time it’s common to apt-get/dnf/yum/apk install a package from a Linux distribution’s package repository. At runtime an application may wish to connect() to an internal postgres or mysql database to persist some state, while also calling listen() and accept() to expose APIs and UIs over TCP…
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Capturing Logs in Docker Desktop
Docker Desktop runs a Virtual Machine to host Docker containers. Each component within the VM (including the Docker engine itself) runs as a separate isolated container. This extra layer of isolation introduces an interesting new problem: how do we capture all the logs so we can include them in Docker Desktop diagnostic reports?
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Deep Dive Into the New Docker Desktop filesharing Implementation Using FUSE
The latest Edge release of Docker Desktop for Windows 2.1.7.0 has a completely new filesharing system using FUSE instead of Samba. Part 1 in the series presented the performance improvements and explains how to give feedback. Part 2 gives more insight about the new architecture.
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New Filesharing Implementation in Docker Desktop Windows Improves Developer Inner Loop UX
The latest Edge release of Docker Desktop for Windows 2.1.7.0 has a completely new filesharing implementation using Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) instead of Samba.
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