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Announcing the Compose Specification
Docker is pleased to announce that we have created a new open community to develop the Compose Specification.
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Awesome-Compose: Application samples for project development kickoff
Software systems have become quite complex nowadays. A system may consist of several distributed services, each one providing a specific functionality and being updated independently. Starting the development of a project of such complexity is sometimes time consuming, in particular when you are not already familiar with the software stack you are going to work on. This may be because, most of the time, we need to follow rigorous steps to put together the entire project and if we make a mistake in-between, we may have to start all over again.
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Helping You and Your Development Team Build and Ship Faster
We heard from you that easily going from code to cloud is a problem, and Scott outlined the complexities. However, what if you are a developer in a small team at a startup, and need something easy, fast, and efficient? Or, if you are a developer who is part of a team in a large organization that uses multiple clouds?
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Cool Hacks Spotlight: DART
Docker container platforms are being used to support mission-critical efforts all over the world. The Planetary Defense Coordination Office out of NASA is using Docker’s platform to support a critical mission that could potentially affect everyone on the planet! The office is responsible for tracking near-earth asteroids, characterizing them and determining how to deflect them…
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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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Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit
We’ve been working hard to build native Docker for Mac and Windows apps to ensure that your Docker experience is as seamless as possible on the most popular developer operating systems. Docker for Mac and Windows include everything required to spin up a Linux Docker container that efficiently bridges storage and networking from the host…
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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 Compose) and SocketPlane are great examples of where great ideas were generated in…
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