Links tagged “docker”

ops.tips

How to provision Grafana data sources and dashboards from config files at startup, so an instance comes up fully configured without anyone touching the UI.

medium.com

How to share a Docker build cache across several CI hosts using BuildKit and buildx, working around the limits of the default local build cache.

iximiuz.com

Turns a Docker container's filesystem into a bootable disk image by adding a kernel and a bootloader, then boots the result in a virtual machine.

github.com

cAdvisor documentation for scraping application-level metrics out of containers, configured through Docker labels and a per-container endpoint spec.

pascallandau.com

Third part of a PHP-on-Docker series, on laying out the folders, Dockerfiles, service definitions and helper scripts of a project's Docker setup.

harishnarayanan.org

Guide to containerising a Django application with Docker and running it on Kubernetes for scale and resilience.

infoq.com

Report on the service load balancing added in Docker 1.12, which routes traffic to Swarm service replicas through DNS and IPVS instead of manual container aliases.

linux-toys.com

Critique of the Docker 1.12 release, arguing that Swarm mode and its multi-host networking were marketed before they worked reliably.

github.com

Repository holding the definitions and review process behind the Official Images published on Docker Hub.

github.com

Minimal init for containers, spawning a single child, forwarding signals to it and reaping zombie processes, with no change needed to the image.

github.com

Docker build tool extending the Dockerfile syntax with mounts, templating and multiple image outputs; the repository was archived in 2023.

github.com

Generates Dockerfiles from Bash sources so build steps can be reused across files; the repository was archived in 2023.

grocker.readthedocs.io

Documentation for Grocker, a tool that bundles a Python application into a Docker image while keeping the image as small as possible.

blog.jessfraz.com

An opinionated rundown of Docker's storage graphdrivers and the trade-offs between them, aimed at picking the right one.

resin.io

Write-up of getting Docker to build and run on the Raspberry Pi, with the Arch Linux and aufs kernel steps; now marked deprecated in favour of balena.io.

resin.io

Container platform for deploying and updating fleets of Linux IoT devices over the air; the site now redirects to balena.io after the rebrand.

github.com

Build tool that compiles a Go service into a static binary inside Docker and packages it in a scratch-based image.

jpetazzo.github.io

Slide deck comparing Docker's AUFS, Device Mapper, BTRFS, OverlayFS and VFS storage drivers — how each implements copy-on-write, and how they perform.

vincent.demeester.fr

Personal site of Vincent Demeester, a French engineer working on Docker/Moby, Tekton and NixOS, mixing posts, TIL notes and bookmarks.

sirupsen.com

A 2015 list of ten obstacles — image building, logging, filesystem reliability — that kept Docker from succeeding widely in production.