written by Alex Giurgiu and Valentin Stoican, Seqvence For Docker’s 3rd birthday, the Docker team decided to organize a challenge to teach people Docker, and hopefully have some fun at the same time. It was a great event, with over 1180 people completing the assignment participating in 220 locations around the world. In this article, we will describe the way we leveraged Docker tools to create a platform capable of handling thousands of requests and testing more than 10,000 containers.
The quality of the Docker hacks and amount of participation from the Docker community was simply phenomenal! Over 2,000 community members attended events around the world and 50 meetup groups organized local editions of this Docker Hack Day #3. Kudos to the Docker community and Docker meetup organizers for helping organize this hands-on event! Forty-two valid projects were submitted for final judging before last week’s deadline and the jury composed of Docker experts had a difficult time choosing Local Edition winners! Click here to see the list of Local Edition winners. Voting for the global winners closed yesterday and the results are in! The Docker community voted through…
Thank you everyone who participated in Docker Global Hack Day #3! Over 2,000 community members attend local meetups hosting Docker Global Hack Day #3 events. A big thank you to all of the sponsors who helped make those events possible! The jury composed of Docker experts was quite impressed with the 42 hacks that were submitted for final judging! We actually did receive 42 valid submissions so this Docker Global Hack Day #3 must be related to the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything! We are excited to announce the winners of the Local Editions for Docker Global…
In the DockerCon closing keynote Dieter Reuter from Hypriot presented a demo running 500 Docker containers on a Raspberry Pi 2 device. Convinced that this number of containers could be at least doubled, Dieter then challenged the Docker community to beat his personal record. As of now, the current record stands at 2334 web servers running in containers on a single Raspberry Pi 2. You can see the original demo here: [youtube:”https://youtu.be/MHJmNZSRve0?t=1m48s”]
The biggest Docker event (so far)! This week was the first-of-its-kind Docker Global Hack Day! The growing number of Docker meetup groups around the globe has convinced us to organize an event that would bring the whole Docker community together despite the time difference. Such a global event would have never been possible without the engagement of every participants and the help of our meetup group co-organizers that managed to find places to host local editions of the Global Hack Day. With more than 400 participants worldwide (including the people registered for the remote edition) and 8 local editions, we…