Docker
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Jul 10, 2018
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…
Christine LovettRead now
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Jun 21, 2018
Making Compose Easier to Use with Application Packages
Docker Compose is wildly popular with developers for describing an application. In fact, there are more than 300,000 Docker Compose files on GitHub. With a set of services described in a docker-compose.yml file, it’s easy to launch a complex multi-service application (or a simple, single-service app) on Docker by running a single command. This ease of use…
Gareth RushgroveRead now
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Apr 3, 2018
Improved Docker Container Integration with Java 10
Many applications that run in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), including data services such as Apache Spark and Kafka and traditional enterprise applications, are run in containers. Until recently, running the JVM in a container presented problems with memory and cpu sizing and usage that led to performance loss. This was because Java didn’t recognize…
Sophia ParafinaRead now
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Jan 20, 2017
CPU Management in Docker 1.13
Resource management for containers is a huge requirement for production users. Being able to run multiple containers on a single host and ensure that one container does not starve the others in terms of cpu, memory, io, or networking in an efficient way is why I like working with containers. However, cpu management for containers…
Michael CrosbyRead now
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Jan 19, 2017
Introducing Docker 1.13
Today we’re releasing Docker 1.13 with lots of new features, improvements and fixes to help Docker users with New Year’s resolutions to build more and better container apps. Docker 1.13 builds on and improves Docker swarm mode introduced in Docker 1.12 and has lots of other fixes. Read on for Docker 1.13 highlights. Use compose-files to deploy…
Docker Core EngineeringRead now
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Jun 21, 2016
Building serverless apps with Docker
Every now and then, there are waves of technology that threaten to make the previous generation of technology obsolete. There has been a lot of talk about a technique called “serverless” for writing apps. The idea is to deploy your application as a series of functions, which are called on-demand when they need to be…
Ben FirshmanRead now
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May 13, 2016
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….
Mike ColemanRead now
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Apr 29, 2016
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…
Mike ColemanRead now