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Docker Engine 1.10 Security Improvements

It’s been a crazy past few months with DockerCon and the holidays but yet we are still hacking away on the Docker Engine and have some really awesome security features I would like to highlight with the release of Docker Engine 1.10. Security is very important to us...

Containerd: a daemon to control runC

As we build out Docker’s infrastructure plumbing, we are committed to releasing these plumbing components as open source to help the community. Today we’re releasing a new daemon to control runC called: containerd. It's built for performance and...

Setting Up a Minecraft Server Using Docker – Part 1

This is a quick tutorial demonstrating how to set up a local Minecraft server on Docker using Kitematic.   Create a Minecraft Server Container First, if you haven't yet done so, download and start Kitematic. Once installed and running, create a container from the...

Gathering LXC and Docker containers metrics

Linux Containers rely on control groups which not only track groups of processes, but also expose a lot of metrics about CPU, memory, and block I/O usage. We will see how to access those metrics, and how to obtain network usage metrics as well. This is relevant for...

Docker can now run within Docker

One of the (many!) features of Docker 0.6 is the new "privileged" mode for containers. It allows you to run some containers with (almost) all the capabilities of their host machine, regarding kernel features and device access. Among the (many!) possibilities of the...