Some applications are hard to cross-compile on Mac if you are deploying to Linux servers. If you are using unikernels you might be relying on docker or vagrant to do this, however that is not necessary anymore with the new cross-compilation support for OP... (more…)

When installing software with Nix, if the target isn’t available in a binary cache somewhere, the software will be built on your machine from source. This is fine for a development machine, but when deploying software on a remote server this can be tricky... (more…)

Learn about the Nginx Unit web application server and try it out with Docker, PHP, and Laravel. (more…)

On the 13th June 2019, a rocket launched from Kiruna, Sweden, carrying 280kg of scientific experiments; among them, a Raspberry Pi Zero running Docker containers on balenaOS. To our knowledge this is the first time a Moby/Docker container engine has been ... (more…)

I’ve talked about how to make tiny Docker images a fair bit in the past, but now that Docker has multi-stage builds, it’s time to revisit… (more…)