We are not the first, and not the only, Data Science team to use Docker. Truth be told, it is somewhat of a trend right now, and for good reason. At Relink we…...

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…)

Sometime last month you built a Docker image for your Python application. Today you start with the same revision, fix a minor bug, and build a new image from scratch. And suddenly you’ve got a mess on your hands. If your build is not reproducible, you mig... (more…)

How to inspect a docker image from dockerhub without pulling it... (more…)

Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we were using for each Docker image, and we realized that we were installing more dependencies than ... (more…)