Docker
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Jun 22, 2015
Docker and Broad Industry Coalition Unite to Create Open Container Project
This morning, Docker, along with a broad coalition of vendors, users, start-ups, and industry leaders, made one of the more significant in the history of containerization. In brief, we are coming together to form a minimalist, non-profit, openly governed project, The Open Container Project, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation for the express purpose…
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Jun 3, 2015
Setting Up a Minecraft Server Using Docker – Part 1
This is a quick tutorial demonstrating how to set up a local Minecraft server on Docker using Kitematic. Create a Minecraft Server Container First, if you haven’t yet done so, download and start Kitematic. Once installed and running, create a container from the recommended Minecraft image by clicking the “Create” button. After the image…
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Oct 31, 2013
Docker 0.6.5: name your containers, link them together, selectively publish ports, and more
Review the updates made with Docker 0.6.5 and learn about container naming, links between containers, updated host integration and advanced port redirects.
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Oct 25, 2013
Call me Moby Dock
Last month we asked the Docker community to vote for the name of the Docker whale. We received 411 votes and today we are excited to announce that the community chose Moby Dock. As promised, the first three community members who answered “Moby Dock” to the question “What should we name the Docker whale?” in…
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Oct 8, 2013
Gathering LXC and Docker containers metrics
Linux Containers rely on control groups which not only track groups of processes, but also expose a lot of metrics about CPU, memory, and block I/O usage. We will see how to access those metrics, and how to obtain network usage metrics as well. This is relevant for “pure” LXC containers, as well as for…
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Sep 5, 2013
Docker can now run within Docker
One of the (many!) features of Docker 0.6 is the new “privileged” mode for containers. It allows you to run some containers with (almost) all the capabilities of their host machine, regarding kernel features and device access. Among the (many!) possibilities of the “privileged” mode, you can now run Docker within Docker itself. First, we…
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Jul 19, 2013
How to use your own Registry
Learn how to use a local registry with Docker to push images that contain proprietary code or confidential information that needs to remain private.
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