Posts Tagged ‘Docker’
Docker inc. have announced the release of Docker 1.8, which brings with it some new and updated tools in addition to new engine features. Docker Toolbox provides a packaged system aiming to be, ‘the fastest way to get up and running with a Docker development environment’, and replaces Boot2Docker. The most significant change to Docker Engine […]
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Tags: content trust, Docker, InfoQ, security, toolbox
Upgrading Docker Redux
It’s less than two months since I last wrote about Upgrading Docker, but things have changed again. New repos Part of my problem last time was that the apt repos had quietly moved from HTTP to HTTPS. This time around the repos have more visibly moved, bringing with them a new install target ‘docker-engine’, and the […]
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Tags: APT, Docker, docker-engine, lxc-docker, repo, repository, upgrade
Upgrading Docker
Dockercon #2 is underway, version 1.7.0 of Docker was released at the end of last week, and lots of other new toys are being launched. Time for some upgrades. I got used to Docker always restarting containers when the daemon restarted, which included upgrades, but that behaviour went away around version 1.3.0 with the introduction […]
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Tags: Docker, script, upgrade
BanyanOps have published a report stating that ‘Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain High Priority Security Vulnerabilities’, which include some of the sensational 2014 issues such as ShellShock and Heartbleed. The analysis also looks at user generated ‘general’ repositories and finds an even greater level of vulnerability. Their conclusion is that images […]
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Tags: Docker, InfoQ, security
Container Networking Tutorial
Yesterday I delivered a tutorial as part of the Open Network Users Group (ONUG) Academy: To go through the tutorial yourself you’ll need an AWS account and an SSH client (and the Internet access and browser you’re using to read this). To complement the slides there’s a wiki on GitHub with all of the relevant command […]
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Tags: containers, Docker, networking, ONUG, tutorial
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
The announcement of Rocket by CoreOS was perceived by many to be a direct challenge to Docker, particularly as it came on the eve of DockerCon Europe and threatened to overshadow news coming out at the event. Docker, Inc. CEO Ben Golub was quick to fire back with his ‘initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement’. […]
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Tags: CoreOS, Docker, init, Linux, Rocket, systend
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