This morning, Docker, along with a broad coalition of vendors, users, start-ups, and industry leaders, made one of the more significant [announcements] in the history of containerization. In brief, we are coming together to form a minimalist, non-profit, openly...
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Introducing runC: a lightweight universal container runtime
Spinning Out Docker’s Plumbing: Part 1: Introducing runC On Infrastructure Plumbing To build a platform like Docker you need a lot of infrastructure plumbing; in fact over the past two years even though our code base has grown to tens of thousands of lines of code;...
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...
Kitematic a Docker GUI joins the Docker family
We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Kitematic, the fastest and easiest way to use Docker on the Mac. Because Docker is a tool for developers, we find that the developers in the ecosystem build the best tools for Docker. Orchard's Fig (now...
Docker Desktop 0.9: Introducing Execution Drivers and libcontainer
Fellow Dockers, Today we are happy to introduce Docker 0.9. With this release we are continuing our focus on quality over features, shrinking and stabilizing the core, and providing first-class support for all major operating systems. In addition to dozen of bug...
Docker 0.6.5: name your containers, link them together, selectively publish ports, and more
Today we're happy to announce Docker 0.6.5. Don't be fooled by the version number: this is a significant release! Think of it as a preparation for 0.7, which will be even more significant. In addition to numerous bug fixes, this release introduces container naming,...
Call me Moby Dock
Last month we asked the Docker community to vote for the name of the Docker whale. We received 411 votes and today we are excited to announce that the community chose Moby Dock. As promised, the first three community members who answered "Moby Dock" to the question...
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...