Last Wednesday, the CNCF released the KubeCon Europe 2020 schedule. There are so many talks at KubeCon it can be daunting even to decide what to go to see! Here are some talks by the team at Docker, and some others we think will be particularly interesting. Looking...
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Changes to dockerproject.org APT and YUM repositories
While many people know about Docker, not that many know its history and where it came from. Docker was started as a project in the dotCloud company, founded by Solomon Hykes, which provided a PaaS solution. The project became so successful that dotCloud renamed itself...
Introducing the Docker Index: Insight from the World’s Most Popular Container Registry
8 billion pulls! Yes, that’s billion with a B! This number represents a little known level of activity and innovation happening across the community and ecosystem, all in just one average month. How do we know? From the number of pulls and most popular images to top...
How We Solved a Report on docker-compose Performance on macOS Catalina
Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash As a Docker Compose maintainer, my daily duty is to check for newly reported issues and try to help users through misunderstanding and possible underlying bugs. Sometimes issues are very well documented,...
January Virtual Meetup Recap: Improve Image Builds Using the Features in BuildKit
This is a guest post by Docker Captain Nicholas Dille, a blogger, speaker and author with 15 years of experience in virtualization and automation. He works as a DevOps Engineer at Haufe Group, a digital media company located in Freiburg, Germany. He is also a...
Faster builds in Docker Compose 1.25.1 thanks to BuildKit Support
One of the most requested features for the docker-compose tool is definitely support for building using Buildkit which is an alternative builder with great capabilities, like caching, concurrency and ability to use custom BuildKit front-ends just to mention a few......
Docker Desktop release 2.2 is here!
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,...
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...
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...