I spend a good portion of my time at Docker talking to community members with varying degrees of familiarity with Docker and I sense a common theme: people’s natural response when first working with Docker is to try and frame it in terms of virtual machines. I can’t...
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Docker Networking Design Philosophy
From the experimental networking in Docker 1.7 to the initial release in Docker 1.9, the reception from the community has been fantastic! First of all we want to thank you for all the discussions, evaluations, PRs and filed issues. As the networking...
Docker Compose and Networking: Easy, secure apps at scale
When we released Docker 1.10 and Docker Compose 1.6 on February 4th, we provided you with an easy way to build a fully featured and scalable app. It’s amazing what you can do with just one simple file. I am constantly impressed what a docker-compose up gets you...
Docker 1.10: New Compose file, improved security, networking and much more!
We’re pleased to announce Docker 1.10, jam-packed with stuff you’ve been asking for. It’s now much easier to define and run complex distributed apps with Docker Compose. The power that Compose brought to orchestrating containers is now available for setting up...
Docker Engine 1.10 Security Improvements
It’s been a crazy past few months with DockerCon and the holidays but yet we are still hacking away on the Docker Engine and have some really awesome security features I would like to highlight with the release of Docker Engine 1.10. Security is very important to us...
Compose 1.6: New Compose file for defining networks and volumes
In the previous version of Docker Engine we added a completely new system for managing networks and volumes, and we’re pleased to announce full support for these features in Docker Compose. Compose files used to describe just one thing: the services that make up your...
Containers as a Service (CaaS) as your new platform for application development and operations
Developers don’t adopt locked down platforms. That one simple statement summarizes decades of tension between IT operations and development teams. Along the spectrum of control versus agility are the desires and needs of IT operations teams responsible for keeping...
Containerd: a daemon to control runC
As we build out Docker’s infrastructure plumbing, we are committed to releasing these plumbing components as open source to help the community. Today we’re releasing a new daemon to control runC called: containerd. It's built for performance and...
New Apt and Yum Repos
written by Jessie Frazelle, Core Maintainer at Docker, Inc. TLDR; UPDATE your Docker apt repo source list if you want to be able to get the latest Docker We have a yum repo FINALLY for rpms EVERYONE GETS A DYNAMIC BINARY Today, we are super excited to announce that we...