Docker’s mission is to build tools of mass innovation, starting with a programmable layer for the Internet that enables developers and IT operations teams to build and run distributed applications. As part of this mission, we have always endeavored to contribute software plumbing toolkits back to the community, following the UNIX philosophy of building small loosely coupled tools that are created to simply do one thing well. As Docker adoption has grown from 0 to 6 billion pulls, we have worked to address the needs of a growing and diverse set of distributed systems users. This work has led to the creation of many infrastructure plumbing components that have been contributed back to the community. Read more.
How To Dockerize Vendor Apps Like Confluence
Docker Datacenter customer, Shawn Bower of Cornell University recently shared their experiences in containerizing Confluence as being the start of their Docker journey. Through that project they were able to demonstrate a 10X savings in application maintenance, reduce the time to build a disaster recovery plan from days to 30 minutes and improve the security profile of their Confluence deployment.
Since the original blog was posted, there’s been a lot of requests to get the pragmatic info on how Cornell actually did this project. In the post below, Shawn provides detailed instructions on how Confluence is containerized and how the Docker workflow is integrated with Puppet. Read more.
New Dockercast Episode With Mano Marks From Docker
In case you missed it, we recently launched Dockercast (official Docker Podcast) including all the DockerCon 2016 sessions available as podcast episodes.
In this podcast, we meet Mano Marks, Director of Developer Relations at Docker, and get into the new Docker 1.12 engine/swarm built-in orchestration. We also talk about some cool stuff that is happening with Docker and Windows as well as Raspberry Pi and Docker. Listen to Dockercast
