While releases are meant to be self-contained executables, they still call out to native system libraries to do things like open TCP sockets and write to files. That means that the native libraries… (more…)

Containers are great for software developers but they create new challenges for operations teams running containerized applications. (more…)

I recently had a discussion with a Docker expert about the security of Docker vs. virtual machines. When I told that I've read from different sources that it's easier for code running within a Docker (more…)

In the recent 5.4 release of the Elastic Stack, we standardized on CentOS 7 as the base for our official Docker images (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats). Over time, as we’ve rolled out Docker support for more of our products, we have used images t... (more…)

Running cron jobs in docker containers will lead you to some very common problems, and sometimes without any errors or logs. Let's see all the steps to properly configure and run cron jobs in a docker container. (more…)