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Kitematic a Docker GUI joins the Docker family
We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Kitematic, the fastest and easiest way to use Docker on the Mac. Because Docker is a tool for developers, we find that the developers in the ecosystem build the best tools for Docker. Orchard’s Fig (now Compose) and SocketPlane are great examples of where great ideas were generated in…
Docker Desktop 0.9: Introducing Execution Drivers and libcontainer
Fellow Dockers, Today we are happy to introduce Docker 0.9. With this release we are continuing our focus on quality over features, shrinking and stabilizing the core, and providing first-class support for all major operating systems. In addition to dozen of bug fixes, Docker 0.9 includes 2 major improvements: execution drivers and libcontainer. As usual,…
Docker 0.6.5: name your containers, link them together, selectively publish ports, and more
Review the updates made with Docker 0.6.5 and learn about container naming, links between containers, updated host integration and advanced port redirects.
Call me Moby Dock
Last month we asked the Docker community to vote for the name of the Docker whale. We received 411 votes and today we are excited to announce that the community chose Moby Dock. As promised, the first three community members who answered “Moby Dock” to the question “What should we name the Docker whale?” in…
Gathering LXC and Docker containers metrics
Linux Containers rely on control groups which not only track groups of processes, but also expose a lot of metrics about CPU, memory, and block I/O usage. We will see how to access those metrics, and how to obtain network usage metrics as well. This is relevant for “pure” LXC containers, as well as for…
Docker can now run within Docker
One of the (many!) features of Docker 0.6 is the new “privileged” mode for containers. It allows you to run some containers with (almost) all the capabilities of their host machine, regarding kernel features and device access. Among the (many!) possibilities of the “privileged” mode, you can now run Docker within Docker itself. First, we…
How to use your own Registry
Learn how to use a local registry with Docker to push images that contain proprietary code or confidential information that needs to remain private.