InfoSiftr, a Docker authorized solutions provider and training partner of Docker, is bringing a full-day of hands-on container training to Container World on 21 February 2017 ahead of the full 2-day conference on 22-23 February at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, CA. You can attend at a discounted rate with code INFOS [...]
Tutorials & How-Tos: Vault in Autopilot Vault for managing secrets in the Autopilot Pattern -- On 1/26/17, Joyent shared a walk-through for “secrets management in the Autopilot Pattern,” using Vault. According to the walk-through, Vault provides, “an API for storing and accessing secrets well-suited for autonomous applications,” and features “encryption at rest for secrets,” encrypted [...]
Last month, Docker Inc. opened up containerd – Docker engine's core container runtime – turning it into a community project. This is big news. It means moving innovation further “up the stack,” according to Docker founder Solomon Hykes (as quoted in The New Stack), and it represents a shift in philosophy for Docker Inc., a [...]
Tutorials & How-Tos: Triton CNS with Docker Triton CNS with Docker -- On 1/17/17, Joyent shared a video on "using Triton Container Name Service with Docker." The Triton Container Name Service (CNS) "adds automatic, global DNS to your containers and VMs on Triton," eliminating the need for users to map DNS names to IP numbers. [...]
Docker 1.13 is launching soon, and the release brings some exciting changes. Apart from the slew of small bug fixes and touchups that accompany any major release, Docker 1.13 is characterized by increased Windows support (more Windows log drivers, overlay network support for Windows Server 2016, swarm-mode for Windows), enhanced compatibility (new client can talk [...]
Last January, we wrote about Switch’s commitment to sustainability. Switch, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member and Nevada-based company, had just become the world’s largest 100% green colocation data center (with 100% of power coming from renewable sources). Last week, that commitment was acknowledged in Greenpeace's Clicking Clean report. The report ranked Switch the highest [...]
Tutorials / How-Tos: IoT Dashboard, AWS Lambda Processing Time, Become Production Ready, Portainer IoT Dashboard – On 1/12/17, Joyent shared an example project using Node.js and ContainerPilot on Triton. According to Joyent, this project "will give you a working IoT dashboard connected to a SmartThings IoT hub and devices," and is meant, "as an example [...]
Insight & Analysis: Project Falco, Docker Fork, OpenStack/Kubernetes, Open Source, “Cloud Native Landscape” Project Falco – Project Falco is a security monitoring tool that “links directly into the kernel,” using kernel instrumentation for anomaly and intrusion detection. The project, launched last May, is based on the Sysdig Project (a tool that monitors container performance by [...]
