It’s hard to believe that 2015 is almost over! We saw lots of great content from the Docker community this year including blog posts, tutorials, conference sessions, meetup talks and more.
Thank you to everyone who contributed awesome Docker content this year – we’re looking forward to seeing more great stuff in 2016!
Here are a few of the Docker team’s favorites from the Docker community in 2015:
My favorite article of the year (Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software) describes the work that bioboxes is doing to improve bioinformatics. Academic research is essential to advancing our understanding of the world, and yet it relies on custom software which is written of a specific environment. By containing that environment and the software, bioboxes is taking the pain out of bioinformatics software. They help researchers take advantage of each other’s research in an easy, reproducible way.
Ian Murdock’s blog post on how he found Linux is a great example of how small projects that people would tinker with as a hobby in their free time have made the transition to being widely adopted standards that most people interface with on a daily basis, whether they know it or not. We’re seeing the same sort of transition occur with Docker where it has become more than just a project that a handful of people use; it is taking on a life of its own. I feel like someday I’ll be able to write a blog post like that sometime in the future about how I came to find Docker.
Andrey Sibiryov‘s session at DockerCon EU 2015 on Kernel load-balancing for Docker containers using IPVS was my favorite technical presentation this year – like many people I didn’t even know IPVS existed! IPVS is simple, powerful, battle tested, and helps solve an issue, load balancing for micro services apps, that most Docker users have, with a utility that has been included in the Linux kernel for more than 10 years.
This NVIDIA Docker repo is awesome because it allows NVIDIA GPUs to be accessed in containers. It’s even crazier than running Steam in a container (which has been done!). And it’s awesome to see the NVIDIA folks jump on board the graphics in containers train.
My favorite Docker content is the DockerCon 2015 Day 1 General Session, specifically the overview of Docker provided by Solomon. I reference this preso in all of my presentations as the best way to understand the Docker mission, technology and roadmap.
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