Docker Blog
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Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems
Last year, one of the most common requests we heard from our users was to bring a Docker-native experience to their platforms. These platforms were many and varied: from cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, to server platforms such as Windows Server, desktop platforms that their developers used such as OSX and Windows…
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Introducing Moby Project: a new open source project to advance the software containerization movement
Since Docker democratized software containers four years ago, a whole ecosystem grew around containerization and in this compressed time period it has gone through two distinct phases of growth. In each of these two phases, the model for producing container systems evolved to adapt to the size and needs of the user community as well…
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Adventures in GELF
If you are running apps in containers and are using Docker’s GELF logging driver (or are considering using it), the following musings might be relevant to your interests. Some context When you run applications in containers, the easiest logging method is to write on standard output. You can’t get simpler than that: just echo, print,…
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CPU Management in Docker 1.13
Resource management for containers is a huge requirement for production users. Being able to run multiple containers on a single host and ensure that one container does not starve the others in terms of cpu, memory, io, or networking in an efficient way is why I like working with containers. However, cpu management for containers…
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Introducing Docker 1.13
Today we’re releasing Docker 1.13 with lots of new features, improvements and fixes to help Docker users with New Year’s resolutions to build more and better container apps. Docker 1.13 builds on and improves Docker swarm mode introduced in Docker 1.12 and has lots of other fixes. Read on for Docker 1.13 highlights. Use compose-files to deploy…
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Docker for Windows Server and Image2Docker
In December we had a live webinar focused on Windows Server Docker containers. We covered a lot of ground and we had some great feedback – thanks to all the folks who joined us. This is a brief recap of the session, which also gives answers to the questions we didn’t get round to. Webinar…
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Understanding Docker Networking Drivers and their use cases
Learn the details and proper use of Docker Network Drivers including Bridge, Overlay and MACVLan drivers to increase app portability and security.
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containerd – a core container runtime project for the industry
Today Docker is spinning out its core container runtime functionality into a standalone component, incorporating it into a separate project called containerd, and will be donating it to a neutral foundation early next year. This is the latest chapter in a multi-year effort to break up the Docker platform into a more modular architecture of…
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