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Docker Inc have worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to produce a benchmark document [pdf] containing numerous recommendations for the security of Docker deployments. The benchmark was announced in a blog post ‘Understanding Docker Security and Best Practices’ by Diogo Mónica who was recently hired along with Nathan McCauley to lead theDocker Security […]
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Tags: benchmark, CIS, Docker, Linux, security
ClusterHQ, the team behind Flocker, have announced Powerstrip, an Apache licensed tool to prototype Docker extensions. Powerstrip works as a proxy between the Docker command line interface (CLI) and the Docker daemon allowing the Docker API to be extended. The main advantage of this approach is that by extending the Docker interface, rather than wrapping […]
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Tags: API, ClusterHQ, composition, Docker, Fig, Flocker, Powerstrip, Weave
At their re:invent 2014 show Amazon launched AWS Key Management Service (KMS), “a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of your keys”. At launch the service supported EBS, S3 and Redshift. […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, encryption, HSM, KMS, security
Netflix have announced the release of the Message Security Layer protocol (MSL), which they describe as ‘A Modern Take on Securing Communication’. The project is available on github under the Apache 2.0 license, with implementations in Java and JavaScript. The high level goals of the protocol are to improve performance, be cross language, flexible and extensible, […]
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Tags: MSL, Netflix, open source, PKI, SSL, tls
CloudFlare have made SSL available to all free subscribers to its content delivery network (CDN) with Universal SSL. The move addresses both cost and complexity issues that have previously confronted web site and application owners wanting to deploy SSL. CloudFlare takes care of issuing a certificate at no cost to the end user, and enabling […]
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Tags: CA, CDN, certificate, CloudFlare, security, SSL, tls, web
Weave is an overlay networking system for Docker containers. Whilst Docker can already link containers on a single host, Weave provides connectivity for containers that are spread across multiple hosts. It has been released under the Apache 2 open source license by Zettio, a new company targeting ‘apps for the zettabyte era’ founded by RabbitMQ […]
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Tags: Docker, InfoQ, networking, SDN, Weave
This is my first longer article for InfoQ (rather than being a news item), and it’s intended to be a comprehensive backgrounder on Docker: ‘an overview of the Docker journey so far and where it is headed along with its growing ecosystem of tools for orchestration, composition and scaling. This article provides both a business […]
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Flocker is a volume and container management system for Docker based on ZFS. It allows for stateful containers, such as databases, to be moved between virtual or physical hosts. This provides a capability that is analogous to the live migration features of some virtual machine hypervisors. Version 0.1 has been released by ClusterHQ as an […]
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Tags: ClusterHQ, Docker, Flocker, storage, volume, ZFS
CenturyLink has launched Panamax, a tool that they describe as ‘Docker Management for Humans’. Panamax distinguishes itself from other composition tools for Docker by offering a web based user interface, which can be used to compose multiple Docker containers into templates that can then be shared on GitHub. Alongside the launch of the open source […]
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Tags: CenturyLink, cloud, composition, Docker, Panamax
Docker based platform as a service (PaaS) Deis has announced integration with Docker Hub as a source for container images. This complements their existing integration with git. The open source platform is built on Docker and CoreOS to present a Heroku inspired workflow. continue reading the full story at InfoQ
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Tags: Deis, Docker, InfoQ, paas
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