Docker: Second Birthday

17 Mar 2015

Docker is one of the hottest technologies; I started with it's first release not too long back, however, in Docker world it feels like Docker has been around for a long time.

What a paradigm shift we have witnessed: a few technologies get that kind of attention, momentum, growth, and community in such a short time (24 months).

Today, we use Docker to develop, test, ship, integrate, deploy, and run apps/services. Docker has solved developer (devops) usability problems; it's hard to go back and do things without Docker.

Haven't heard of Docker, or didn't find time to try it out? Start with following links.

• Quick Introduction to Docker
• Official Docker Docs (the first place one should look)
• Docker Weekly Newsletter (Archives)
• Docker by Docker
• Docker Blog
• Docker @ Youtube
• Docker Awesome (curated list of links related to Docker and it's ecosystem)

What's new with Docker? Look at following links:

• Docker Compose (docker-compose, formerly known as fig)
  

  Compose is a tool for defining and running complex applications with Docker. With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

• Docker Machine (docker-machine)
  

  Machine makes it really easy to create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers and inside your own datacenter. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them.

• Docker Swarm (swarm)
  

  Docker Swarm is native clustering for Docker. It turns a pool of Docker hosts into a single, virtual host.Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Flynn, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.