Maintain Docker images small can help in many cases. It reduces the bandwidth required by registry and dramatically speed up deployment in large clusters.To run a Go binary a full fledged distro with libc is generally required. Unfortunately most linux of... (more…)

Monitoring is essential to know the state of our running applications. Using InfluxDB, Grafana and cAdvisor, we will setup a scalable monitoring solution for Docker Swarm. (more…)

While editing the capabilities page of the how containers work zine, I found myself trying to explain why strace doesn’t work in a Docker container. (more…)

Docker can simplify Docker host mounts and utilities...

We have been tracking Docker Inc. over the past three weeks when our system picked signals about a potential M&A event (see our analysis [1], [2] and [3]). Yesterday Docker Inc. announce the sales of its Enterprise division to Mirantis! As part of thi... (more…)