containers
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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 the heels of that announcement, we continue the latest series of blog articles…
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How To Deploy Containers to Azure ACI using Docker CLI and Compose
Running containers in the cloud can be hard and confusing. There are so many options to choose from and then understanding how all the different clouds work from virtual networks to security. Not to mention orchestrators. It’s a learning curve to say the least. At Docker we are making the Developer Experience (DX) more simple….
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Deploy Stateful Docker Containers with Amazon ECS and Amazon EFS
AWS announced that its customers can now configure their ECS apps deployed in EC2 mode to access EFS file systems. This is good news for Docker developers who use Amazon ECS because ECS now natively integrates with Amazon EFS to automatically mount shared file systems into Docker containers.
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What’s in a Container Platform?
Fresh off the heels of DockerCon and the announcement of Docker Enterprise 3.0, an end-to-end and dev-to-cloud container platform, I wanted to share some thoughts on what we mean when we say “complete container platform”. Choice and Flexibility A complete solution has to meet the needs of different kinds of applications and users – not…
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Docker + Golang = <3
This is a short collection of tips and tricks showing how Docker can be useful when working with Go code. For instance, I’ll show you how to compile Go code with different versions of the Go toolchain, how to cross-compile to a different platform (and test the result!), or how to produce really small container…
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The 10 Most Common Questions IT Admins ask About Docker
Over the past few months we have attended a string of industry tradeshow events, helping to teach the world about Docker for enterprise. We were at HPE Discover, DockerCon, RedHat Summit and Cisco Live all within the past 6weeks! I had the pleasure of helping to represent Docker at each events and spoke with attendees….
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So, when do you use a Container or VM?
Recently I was giving a talk at a trade show on the basics of Docker, and how an application goes from an idea to being a production workload running on a Universal Control Plane managed Swarm cluster. As part of that talk, I spent a bit of time talking about how containers are not VMs….
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To Use Physical Or To Use Virtual: That is the container deployment question
I have had a version of the following conversation more than a few times with community members trying to sort out where to run their containerized apps in production: User: So, where should I run my containers? Bare metal or VM’s Me: It’s not a question of “either / or” – that’s the beauty of…
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