We are excited to announce that we released a new Docker Desktop version today! Thanks to the user feedback on the new features initially released in the Edge channel, we are now ready to publish them into Stable. Before getting to each feature into detail,...
Engineering
Capturing Logs in Docker Desktop
Photo by Agence Olloweb on Unsplash 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...
5 Software Development Predictions for 2020
Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash To kick off the new year, we sat down with Docker CEO Scott Johnston and asked him what the future holds for software development. Here are his 2020 predictions and trends to keep an eye on. Existing Code and Apps...
Containers Today Recap: The Future of the Developer Journey
There was amazing attendance at Containers Today in Stockholm a couple of weeks ago. For those who were unable to make it, here is a quick overview of what I talked about at the event in my session around the future of the developer journey. Before we talk about what...
Deep Dive Into the New Docker Desktop filesharing Implementation Using FUSE
Photo by Shane Aldendorff on Unsplash The latest Edge release of Docker Desktop for Windows 2.1.7.0 has a completely new filesharing system using FUSE instead of Samba. The initial blog post we released presents the performance improvements of this new...
New Filesharing Implementation in Docker Desktop Windows Improves Developer Inner Loop UX
A common developer workflow when using frameworks like Symfony or React is to edit the source code using a Windows IDE while running the app itself in a Docker container. The source is shared between the host and the container with a command like the following: $...
Introducing the Docker Desktop WSL 2 Backend
What's Changed Since the Tech Preview Earlier this year, we released a technical preview of our vision for the future of Docker development on Windows using WSL 2. We received lots of feedback from Windows Insiders via different channels, and collated common failure...
Road to containing iSCSI
iSCSI is a popular protocol for block-level storage access, where the iSCSI initiator (client) communicates with an iSCSI target (storage server) over the network. The iSCSI target provides storage to the initiator in the form of one or more LUNs. iSCSI can be...
Docker ❤️ WSL 2 – The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
One of Docker’s goals has always been to provide the best experience working with containers from a Desktop environment, with an experience as close to native as possible whether you are working on Windows, Mac or Linux. We spend a lot of time working with the...