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InfoQ – Twistlock Announce General Availability of Container Security Suite
Twistlock have announced the general availability of their Container Security Suite, along with a partnership with Google Cloud Platform that integrates Twistlock into Google Container Engine (GKE)....
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InfoQ – ContainerX Launching Container Platform for Enterprise IT
ContainerX will launch their ‘Container Platform for Enterprise IT’ at DockerCon Europe next week in Barcelona. Described as ‘vSphere for Containers’ the platform aims to give developers a self service...
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Three days with Bryan Cantrill
On my first day with Bryan Cantrill he did a wonderful (and very amusing) presentation on Debugging Microservices in Production on the containers track at QCon SF. On my second day with Bryan Cantrill...
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Installation is a Software Hate Crime
“Installation is a Software Hate Crime” – Pat Kerpan, then CTO of Borland circa 2004. Today’s hate – meta installers I’ve noticed a trend for some time that when downloading an installer rather than...
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Using Overlay file system with Docker on systemd Ubuntu (14.10+)
Back in March I wrote about Using Overlay file system with Docker on Ubuntu – those instructions applied to Ubuntu before the switch to systemd e.g. 14.04 and earlier. The move to systemd means that...
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Refereeing the Unikernels Slamdown
Background The last two interviews that I’ve done for InfoQ have been with Anil Mahavapeddy and Bryan Cantrill, and in both cases we talked about unikernels. Anil is very much pro unikernels, whilst...
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InfoQ – Docker Security Scanning
Docker Inc have announced general availability of Docker Security Scanning, which was previously known as Project Nautilus. The release comes alongside an update to the CIS Docker Security Benchmark to...
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The DXC Blogs – Install Docker
Originally published internally 24 Dec 2015: Install Docker, because it gives you installation superpowers for many other things. Install Docker, so that you don’t have to install Ansible, or Python,...
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The DXC Blogs – Four Pillars of Modern Infrastructure
Originally posted internally 6 Jan 2016: I’d meant to post this before the Christmas break as a guide to things to tinker with over the break, but then I hit the point where pretty much everybody...
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InfoQ – Moby and LinuxKit Open Source from Docker
At the recent DockerCon event in Austin Docker Inc announced two significant open source projects, Moby and LinuxKit. Moby essentially marks the split of Docker the open source project from Docker Inc...
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The DXC Blogs – vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC)
Originally posted internally 26 May 2016: Last week I called in on Brad Meiseles, the senior director of engineering responsible for VIC. It’s a product I’ve been watching since the earliest rumblings...
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The DXC Blogs – The point of (Docker) containers
Originally posted internally 18 Nov 2016: Background Late yesterday I got an email from my colleagues in France asking me to review a pitch deck about our Docker capabilities for a financial services...
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Which Java?
Or should that be: which java TL;DR Practices for installing and maintaining Java have evolved over time, which can lead to tension between teams who are set in a particular way, and other teams who...
View ArticleGitHub Actions and their product management philosophy
Kerpan’s law of product management: Good products are defined by what they aren’t.Patrick Kerpan, CEO, Cohesive Networks Swan’s corollary: Bad products are the integral of every stupid little feature...
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October 2021
Pupdate It’s starting to get muddy out there, and I guess it won’t be long before they need coats on because of the cold. Dart on Docker on Arm Most of the stuff we build at The @ Company is written...
View ArticleMulti architecture automated builds for Dart binaries
One of my favourite features of Dart is its ability to create executables (aka ahead of time [AOT] binaries)[1]. Creating binaries for the platform you’re running on is very straightforward, just dart...
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