Does Docker run on Windows? Yes. Docker is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Here are the download links: Docker Desktop for Windows Docker Desktop for Mac Linux What is the difference between Virtual Machines (VM) and Containers? This is a great question and I...
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DockerCon 2020: The AWS Sessions
Last week we announced Docker and AWS created an integrated and frictionless experience for developers to leverage Docker Compose, Docker Desktop, and Docker Hub to deploy their apps on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. On...
From Docker Straight to AWS
Just about six years ago to the day Docker hit the first milestone for Docker Compose, a simple way to layout your containers and their connections. A talks to B, B talks to C, and C is a database. Fast forward six years and the container ecosystem has become...
DockerCon 2020: Top Rated Sessions – The Fundamentals
Of all the sessions from DockerCon LIVE 2020, the Best Practices + How To’s track sessions received the most live views and on-demand views. Not only were these sessions highly viewed, they were also highly rated. We thought this would be the case based on the fact...
How To Manage Docker Hub Organizations and Teams
Docker Hub has two major constructs to help with managing users access to your repository images. Organizations and Teams. Organizations are a collection of Teams and Teams are a collection of DockerIDs. There are a variety of ways of configuring your Teams within...
Stack Overflow Survey Reconfirms Developer Love for Docker
The 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey confirms what we already knew: there’s a lot of developer love out there for Docker and it is continuing from last year. Docker was the #1 most wanted platform and #2 most loved platform, according to the survey results...
Shortening the developer commute with Docker and Microsoft Azure
Do you remember the first time you used Docker? I do. It was about six years ago and like many folks at the time it looked like this: docker run -it redis I was not using Redis at the time but it seemed like a complicated enough piece of software to put this new...
Creating the best Linux Development experience on Windows & WSL 2
We are really excited to have had Docker Desktop be featured in a breakout session titled “The Journey to One .NET” at MSFT Build by @Scott Hanselman with WSL 2. Earlier in the his keynote, we learned about the great new enhancements for GPU support for...
How to Build and Test Your Docker Images in the Cloud with Docker Hub
Part 2 in the series on Using Docker Desktop and Docker Hub Together Introduction In part 1 of this series, we took a look at installing Docker Desktop, building images, configuring our builds to use build arguments, running our application in containers, and finally,...