Network Intrusion Detection on VNS3
This post originally appeared on the CohesiveFT blog The Docker subsystem available since version 3.5 allows additional virtualized network functions (VNFs) to be run on VNS3. I’ve previously written...
View ArticleInfoQ – Deis adds Support for Docker Hub
Docker based platform as a service (PaaS) Deis has announced integration with Docker Hub as a source for container images. This complements their existing integration with git. The open source platform...
View ArticleInfoQ – CenturyLink Launches Panamax Docker Composition Tool
CenturyLink has launched Panamax, a tool that they describe as ‘Docker Management for Humans’. Panamax distinguishes itself from other composition tools for Docker by offering a web based user...
View ArticleMulti tier Docker apps with Panamax
Just as I did with Fig I had a go at composing my three tier demo app with CenturyLink’s Panamax as I was writing my InfoQ piece on the launch. You can see the resulting todomvc.pmx template file in...
View ArticleInfoQ – ClusterHQ Launches Flocker to Facilitate Robust Stateful Docker...
Flocker is a volume and container management system for Docker based on ZFS. It allows for stateful containers, such as databases, to be moved between virtual or physical hosts. This provides a...
View ArticleFun with Flocker
Before writing my InfoQ story about Flocker I ran through my now usual process of getting my 3 tier demo[1] working on it (in addition to running through the getting started guide[2]). What I found is...
View ArticleInfoQ – Docker: Present and Future
This is my first longer article for InfoQ (rather than being a news item), and it’s intended to be a comprehensive backgrounder on Docker: ‘an overview of the Docker journey so far and where it is...
View ArticleInfoQ – Zettio Releases Weave for Docker Networking
Weave is an overlay networking system for Docker containers. Whilst Docker can already link containers on a single host, Weave provides connectivity for containers that are spread across multiple...
View ArticleThe New Stack – Why Docker, Containers and systemd Drive a Wedge Through the...
The announcement of Rocket by CoreOS was perceived by many to be a direct challenge to Docker, particularly as it came on the eve of DockerCon Europe and threatened to overshadow news coming out at the...
View ArticleInfoQ – Powerstrip: A Tool for Prototyping Docker Extensions
ClusterHQ, the team behind Flocker, have announced Powerstrip, an Apache licensed tool to prototype Docker extensions. Powerstrip works as a proxy between the Docker command line interface (CLI) and...
View ArticleUsing Overlay file system with Docker on Ubuntu
Last week Jérôme Petazzoni did an excellent (abbreviated) version of his ‘Deep dive into Docker storage drivers‘ at the London Docker Meetup. If I wasn’t convinced enough by that, Jessie Frazelle...
View ArticleInfoQ – Docker Security Benchmark
Docker Inc have worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to produce a benchmark document [pdf] containing numerous recommendations for the security of Docker deployments. The benchmark was...
View ArticleContainer Networking Tutorial
Yesterday I delivered a tutorial as part of the Open Network Users Group (ONUG) Academy: To go through the tutorial yourself you’ll need an AWS account and an SSH client (and the Internet access and...
View ArticleInfoQ: Security Vulnerabilities in Docker Hub Images
BanyanOps have published a report stating that ‘Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain High Priority Security Vulnerabilities’, which include some of the sensational 2014 issues such as...
View ArticleUpgrading Docker
Dockercon #2 is underway, version 1.7.0 of Docker was released at the end of last week, and lots of other new toys are being launched. Time for some upgrades. I got used to Docker always restarting...
View ArticleUpgrading Docker Redux
It’s less than two months since I last wrote about Upgrading Docker, but things have changed again. New repos Part of my problem last time was that the apt repos had quietly moved from HTTP to HTTPS....
View ArticleInfoQ – Docker 1.8 Release with Multiple New Tools
Docker inc. have announced the release of Docker 1.8, which brings with it some new and updated tools in addition to new engine features. Docker Toolbox provides a packaged system aiming to be, ‘the...
View ArticleInfoQ – Docker Acquires Tutum
Docker Inc have announced their acquisition of Tutum, ‘The Docker Platform for Dev and Ops’ that allows users to ‘Build, deploy, and manage your apps across any cloud’. The rationale for the deal is to...
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