If you have your ear even slightly to the ground of the software community, you’ll have heard of Docker. Having recently enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity, it continues to attract users at a ...

Container instances. Calling docker run on an OCI image results in the allocation of system resources to create a ...

Like many, I initially approached Docker with a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm. The promise of consistent environments and simplified deployments seemed too good to be true. However, after ...

When I started self-hosting apps with Docker containers in my home lab, I followed the advice to manage them with a widely recommended tool — Portainer. Like many, I loved the comfort of using a GUI ...

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If you had any doubts about just how popular Docker's containers are, the news that VMware is partnering with Docker, Google, and Pivotal to integrate Docker containers into VMware's virtualization ...

Docker started out in 2012 as an open source project, originally named dotcloud, to build single-application Linux containers. Since then, Docker has become an immensely popular development tool, ...

If you deploy containers with Docker, at some point you'll need to troubleshoot. Jack Wallen shows you how to do so with the logs command. Containers can be a tricky solution to deploy and manage.

ClusterHQ, the startup behind the open-source Flocker container manager, says a new $12m funding injection sends an important signal about the emergence of the Docker ecosystem. The investment, led by ...

I was a Docker skeptic. The idea of containers was not particularly new (BSD Jails, Solaris zones, etc.) and it didn't seem to be enough to sustain a company or a new way of working. I've changed my ...