We have previously written a simple unit test that required us to setup a few tools (Python and nose). Now we will run those tools in a Docker container. (more…)

In 2020, Docker is the best medium for distributing and running most developer-facing software. It’s widely accepted that Docker is great for building and deploying the artifacts for your enterprise web app, but this is less well known when it comes to th... (more…)

AWS announced that its customers can now configure their ECS apps deployed in EC2 mode to access EFS file systems. This is good news for Docker developers who use Amazon ECS because ECS now natively integrates with Amazon EFS to automatically mount shared... (more…)

The Alpine Linux distribution was born as a fork of the LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Framework) project, which itself was a fork of an extremely tiny distro, the now-defunct Linux Router Project (LRP). The concept behind Alpine was to create a light and... (more…)

In the previous article in this series we pulled a Docker container from DockerHub and started it on our local machine. This can be quite… (more…)