In my last blog, I showed you how to get up and running with Docker Desktop. While we briefly introduced you to every major component bundled within Docker Desktop, it’s now time to drill a little deeper. In this blog, you’ll learn how to use one of our most-popular...
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Capturing Build Information with BuildKit
Although every Docker image has a manifest — a JSON collection of tags, digital signatures, and configuration details — Docker images can still lack some basic information at build time. Those missing details could be useful to developers. So, how do we fill in the...
CTO Chat: Overcoming the Developer Experience Gap (feat. RedMonk & Flow.io)
The idea that organizations should focus on creating a positive experience for their employees is nothing new. This naturally extends to software development teams, but how can organizations ensure their developers feel empowered — and have the right tools, processes,...
Top 5 Docker Desktop Features Developers Must Know About
Built atop Docker Engine—our open-source container runtime—Docker Desktop is ideal for developers needing greatly expanded Docker functionality, regardless of experience level. Docker Desktop is ready to use out of the box. It packages together Docker’s CLI, Docker...
Docker Raises Series C: More Build, More Share, More Run
Today we’re announcing Docker’s closing of $105 million in Series C financing to accelerate our vision of enabling developers to spend more time on innovation, less time on everything else. The round was led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and includes...
Docker Extensions Preview
Have you ever found that you had too many developer tools to integrate together? At the Docker Community All Hands on March 31, 2022, Docker will preview a new beta feature, Docker Extensions. Using an SDK, both partners and the community can build new functionality...
Getting Started with Docker Desktop
If you’re curious about Docker but haven’t used it, you’re at the right place. While Docker is technical at its core, our goal is to make our tools approachable for all users regardless of their familiarity with containers. This blog introduces Docker technology,...
Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac
Introducing virtiofs The 4.6 release of Docker Desktop for Mac contains a number of changes that drastically improve file sharing performance for macOS users. Firstly, developers now have the option of using a new experimental file sharing implementation called...
Vulnerability Alert: Avoiding “Dirty Pipe” CVE-2022-0847 on Docker Engine and Docker Desktop
You might have heard about a new Linux vulnerability that was released last week, CVE-2022-0847, aka “Dirty Pipe”. This vulnerability overwrites supposedly read-only files in the Linux kernel host, which could enable attackers to modify files inside the host images...