Engineering
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Deep Dive Into the New Docker Desktop filesharing Implementation Using FUSE
The latest Edge release of Docker Desktop for Windows 2.1.7.0 has a completely new filesharing system using FUSE instead of Samba. Part 1 in the series presented the performance improvements and explains how to give feedback. Part 2 gives more insight about the new architecture.
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New Filesharing Implementation in Docker Desktop Windows Improves Developer Inner Loop UX
The latest Edge release of Docker Desktop for Windows 2.1.7.0 has a completely new filesharing implementation using Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) instead of Samba.
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Introducing the Docker Desktop WSL 2 Backend
What’s Changed Since the Tech Preview Earlier this year, we released a technical preview of our vision for the future of Docker development on Windows using WSL 2. We received lots of feedback from Windows Insiders via different channels, and collated common failure cases. We also used it ourselves a lot, and took the time…
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Road to containing iSCSI
iSCSI is a popular protocol for block-level storage access, where the iSCSI initiator (client) communicates with an iSCSI target (storage server) over the network. The iSCSI target provides storage to the initiator in the form of one or more LUNs. iSCSI can be leveraged to provide persistent storage to containerized workloads. In Kubernetes, iSCSI initiator…
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Docker ❤️ WSL 2 – The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
One of Docker’s goals has always been to provide the best experience working with containers from a Desktop environment, with an experience as close to native as possible whether you are working on Windows, Mac or Linux. We spend a lot of time working with the software stacks provided by Microsoft and Apple to achieve…
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Getting started with Docker for Arm on Linux
This blog post is the result of collaboration between Arm and Docker. Special thanks to Jason Andrews @ Arm for creating much of the original content. Arm and Docker announced a strategic partnership earlier this year to unify software development and deployment across a diverse set of devices, from IoT endpoints to the edge of the…
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Containerizing Test Tooling: Creating your Dockerfile and Makefile
We hear a lot about the benefits of containerizing applications, but we do not often hear about the benefits of containerizing the tests of those applications or applications whose purpose is to test an entire system. Running an application’s tests inside containers allows us a greater sense of assurance that our applications are running as…
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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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