The article explains Docker’s rapid rise, clarifies the difference between Docker and containers, compares containers with virtual machines, and describes how Docker streamlines application deployment by packaging code and its dependencies into portable containers within the cloud‑native ecosystem.
This article describes how to build an automated documentation publishing pipeline using VSTS CI, Azure FTP deployment, Sphinx conversion, Docker containers, and GitHub synchronization, enabling one‑click HTML generation and backup for Markdown/reStructuredText sources.
This article explains the fundamentals of container technology, compares containers with virtual machines, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for constructing a minimal Linux container using busybox or debootstrap, configuring namespaces, cgroups, networking, and launching processes via Go’s exec.Cmd, with full code examples.
This article details Alibaba's large‑scale migration of core transaction services from traditional VM and proprietary T4 containers to a unified Docker‑based platform called AliDocker, covering integration challenges, image‑based deployment, Swarm customizations, and middleware Dockerization that enabled seamless double‑11 operations.
The article explains the Third Way of DevOps—continuous learning through Kaizen and the PDSA cycle—showing how Docker serves as laboratory equipment that enables rapid, reproducible experiments, illustrated with examples from a financial institution and a personal baseball‑statistics project.
This article outlines the most important Node.js best practices for 2017, including adopting ES2015, using Promises, following coding standards, deploying with Docker, monitoring with Prometheus or Trace, enhancing security with checklists, learning micro‑services, attending conferences, semantic versioning, and using LTS releases.
This article explains the DevOps “Second Way,” emphasizing faster, bidirectional feedback loops, and shows how Docker’s immutable containers, streamlined packaging, and embedded metadata reduce variation, accelerate defect detection, and shorten lead times in service delivery.
This article shares the engineering team’s experience of building a high‑growth, reliable backend for English Fluently, covering inter‑service communication with gRPC, service discovery, Docker‑based deployment, health‑checking, monitoring, autoscaling, Kubernetes orchestration, and multi‑cell availability strategies.
This article explains how Docker supports the First Way of DevOps—Systems Thinking—by increasing pipeline velocity, reducing variation, and improving visualization, thereby enabling faster, more reliable software delivery through global optimization of the value stream.
This article explains how Docker containers are managed within Kubernetes clusters using the Flannel component, detailing its interaction with etcd to allocate unique subnet ranges for each minion node, configuring flanneld, and troubleshooting common networking issues.
This article explains the principles of DevOps, its technical, process, and organizational considerations, and introduces Docker as a key tool, detailing its architecture, components, native utilities, suitable scenarios, and how it enables continuous integration, delivery, and efficient operations.
The article analyzes how the rapid adoption of microservices and container virtualization, especially Docker, boosts software agility and adaptability, while highlighting the critical role of stateful services, the challenges of storage in containers, and the concrete benefits of running both stateless and stateful components within containers.
This article compares traditional hypervisor‑based virtualization with Docker container technology, detailing how containers use shared kernels, namespaces, cgroups, AUFS, and device mapper to achieve lightweight isolation and higher resource efficiency.
This article walks through installing a Mesos‑based distributed scheduling platform on macOS using Docker containers, covering custom image creation, registry configuration, Docker‑VM quirks, environment‑variable setup for Zookeeper, Mesos master and slaves, Marathon deployment, and practical tips for accessing containers via socat, Portainer, chroot, and nsenter.
This article explains how to use Microsoft Azure and Team Foundation Server to create a container‑based continuous delivery pipeline, covering DevOps culture, the benefits of containers, and three practical scenarios demonstrated in a recorded video.
This article presents a comprehensive case study of the EMC containerized delivery platform, detailing how Docker, Kubernetes, and automated image building are leveraged to achieve continuous delivery for a large‑scale microservices project, and discusses the system’s architecture, image standardization, environment governance, and future enhancements.
This article explains the fundamental ideas behind microservices, compares them with traditional SOA, discusses when to adopt microservices, outlines design principles, explores technology selections such as Spring Cloud and Docker, and addresses common challenges like service discovery, transaction handling, and operational costs.
This article describes how Qunar's operations team designed and implemented a cloud‑native Elasticsearch‑as‑a‑Service platform using Mesos, Marathon, and Docker, covering requirements analysis, technology selection, resource quota management, cluster isolation, service discovery, data reliability, monitoring, automated deployment, and future improvements.
Uber tackled the challenge of managing over 1,000 MySQL clusters by designing Schemadock, a Docker‑based solution that runs stateless MySQL containers, uses configuration‑driven topologies, and employs agents for automated deployment, monitoring, and centralized control, enabling multi‑database hosts, full automation, and unified management.
This guide walks you through installing Docker, configuring a Chinese accelerator, pulling the official Storm Docker image, and using Docker commands to launch both a local Storm instance and a minimal multi‑node cluster with Nimbus and Supervisor, all in under ten minutes.
In this talk, Bilibili’s operations manager shares the journey from early firefighting to a standardized, automated DevOps pipeline, covering ansible‑based configuration, high‑quality release processes, metric‑driven monitoring, and elastic Docker‑based scaling using Mesos, Marathon, Consul, and custom IPAM plugins.
This article explains how to develop, containerize, and run ASP.NET Core applications using Docker on both Linux and Windows containers, covering setup, Dockerfile creation, publishing, and deployment on Windows Nano Server and Server Core with practical code examples.
This article explains how to design and implement a reliable etcd disaster‑recovery system for a Kubernetes‑based platform, covering backup scheduling, data synchronization across sites, code structure, and the advantages and drawbacks of the approach.
The article examines how Docker‑based container technology can be standardized and applied in enterprises to improve resource utilization, streamline software delivery, and create competitive advantages, while also discussing ecosystem standards, selection criteria, and the broader impact on modern IT development.
This article curates five technical reads—covering network operations, Google’s production environment, massive cost‑saving strategies, IDC automation, and Docker‑based RDS—each presented as a “medicine” with a brief description and a link for deeper insight.
This guide walks through fundamental Docker commands for inspecting Docker versions, managing images, running and inspecting containers, committing changes, handling container lifecycle, saving/loading images, logging into registries, and publishing images to a registry.
This article explains how to use Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services/Team Foundation Server together with Docker to create a full‑stack, container‑based CI/CD pipeline for ASP.NET Core applications, covering environment setup, build agents, Docker host connections, and release strategies for test and production.
Learn how to quickly set up a multi‑node Hadoop cluster on a single machine using Docker containers, covering image preparation, SSH configuration, fixed IP assignment with pipework, and building custom Hadoop images, enabling a lightweight, cost‑effective big‑data environment for development and testing.
This article outlines eight crucial best‑practice recommendations—such as creating a non‑root user, enabling user namespace mapping, caching node_modules, properly launching the main process, tagging images, managing processes externally, using production‑grade base images, and synchronizing system time—to securely containerize Node.js applications with Docker.
While Docker revolutionizes application deployment with lightweight containers, it also suffers from significant limitations such as network configuration constraints, restricted library control, lack of clear audit trails, platform incompatibilities, limited isolation, and challenges in storage, logging, and resource management.
This article introduces Docker 1.12’s Swarm mode, detailing its new features such as service creation, health checks, scaling, scheduling constraints, load balancing, service discovery, and rolling updates, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for building a multi‑node Swarm cluster, deploying services, and handling node failures.
A 2016 RisingStack survey of 1,126 Node.js developers shows that MongoDB and Redis dominate databases, AWS is the primary hosting platform, Docker is widely adopted, Promises lead async handling, and debugging remains the biggest challenge, offering valuable insights for backend technology decisions.
This article examines the limitations of traditional database provisioning, explains why a platform‑based RDS solution is needed, and details LeTV's evolution of its cloud‑native RDS service—including Docker containerization, architecture upgrades, elastic scaling, monitoring, and lessons learned—providing a comprehensive guide for building efficient, automated database platforms.
At DockerCon 2016, Aaron Grattafiori outlined a comprehensive security framework for container‑based microservices, emphasizing user namespaces, custom AppArmor/SELinux policies, sec‑comp whitelists, hardened host OS, limited host access, network security, immutable containers, and secret management to achieve high‑assurance deployments.
To address limited iteration cycles and complex upgrade testing, the article presents a comprehensive automated testing framework for Transwarp Data Hub (TDH) that integrates Docker, Jenkins, Selenium, VNC Server, Guacamole, and Python, enabling reliable, repeatable upgrades, detailed reporting, and real‑time monitoring.
This tutorial shows how to create a three‑node MongoDB replica set using Docker, configure automatic primary election, verify data synchronization across secondaries, and simulate a primary failure to observe failover, providing a practical guide for high‑availability database deployments.
This article explains how a securities firm adopted Docker and cloud‑native practices to overcome scaling, upgrade, and reliability challenges, detailing its four‑layer platform architecture, massive container deployments, orchestration strategies, and immutable DevOps best practices for high‑frequency trading environments.
This article explains how microservices adopt decentralized governance, outlines service registration and discovery mechanisms, details Docker and Kubernetes deployment strategies, describes security using OAuth2/OpenID, discusses transaction handling and fault‑tolerance patterns such as circuit breaking and timeouts, providing practical guidance for building robust cloud‑native systems.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker's technical architecture, detailing its key modules such as the client, daemon, server, engine, job system, registry, graph, driver, libcontainer, and container components, and explains how they enable isolation, resource management, networking, and continuous deployment in modern DevOps workflows.
Netflix, facing explosive user growth and a proliferation of client devices, overhauled its monolithic Java/Groovy backend by extracting hundreds of data‑access scripts into independent Node.js services running in Docker containers, using semver versioning to boost scalability, simplify architecture, and accelerate development.
This article reviews six Docker networking projects—Libnetwork, Pipework, Socketplane, Weave, Flannel, and Tinc—explaining their architectures, key concepts, and how they extend Docker's native networking to meet security and advanced functionality requirements.
This article explains how to set up a fast, stable private Docker Registry by leveraging Azure Storage as the backend, detailing the creation of Azure-hosted Docker machines, configuring the registry containers for both macOS/Linux and Windows, and providing scripts to pull and push images through the Azure-backed storage.
This article explains Docker's native networking model, covering Linux namespaces, veth pairs, the docker0 bridge, container IP assignment, port exposure, Docker links, Libcontainer versus LXC, and the need for advanced network optimization solutions for complex cloud environments.
This guide walks you through setting up a Docker Swarm cluster on three Ubuntu 16.04 servers, covering environment preparation, Docker installation, configuring a Consul discovery backend, creating manager and worker nodes, and managing containers across the swarm using the Docker remote API.
This guide explains Docker Swarm’s architecture, installation methods, and step‑by‑step procedures for creating a high‑availability Swarm cluster, including manager and node setup, TLS security, service discovery with Consul, and essential Docker commands for operating and testing the cluster.
This article explains Docker’s architecture, focusing on the role of the AUFS union file system in image layering, storage drivers, and how containers share and update layers to achieve efficient deployment and storage management.
The article recounts a live debate at the Shanghai Operations Day where experts examined whether Docker is truly revolutionary, offering PDCA‑based preparation, execution, and post‑debate strategies, and presenting key arguments from both sides along with practical tips for effective technical debates.
This guide explains how to download, install, and configure Docker on Windows 10 and macOS, covering prerequisites, enabling Hyper‑V, running the installer, adjusting memory settings, and basic Docker commands such as checking info, running hello‑world, launching Ubuntu and Nginx containers, and viewing running containers.
The article explains the growing trend of containerizing OpenStack, describes how projects like Kolla achieve this, and outlines the advantages such as easier upgrades, greater flexibility, simplified configuration management, reduced OS vendor lock‑in, faster deployment, and improved monitoring and innovation.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of container technology, covering its virtualization-based isolation, historical evolution, core Linux features like namespaces and cgroups, layered image architecture, advantages over virtual machines, limitations, and Docker's role in modern cloud‑native deployments.
This tutorial explains how to set up a macOS development environment with Visual Studio Code and .NET Core, create an ASP.NET Core web application, configure a MySQL database using Docker containers, and package the app for production deployment with Docker Compose.
This tutorial explains how to set up a macOS development environment with Visual Studio Code and .NET Core, create an ASP.NET Core web application using Yeoman, configure MySQL via Docker, and package and deploy the app with Docker and docker‑compose.
This article explains the core concepts of continuous delivery, the challenges it faces, practical solutions such as automated testing, CI pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Ansible, Docker containerization, and how microservices interact with DevOps to enable rapid, safe releases.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to set up an AWS Tokyo VM, install Git and Ansible, clone microservice lifecycle and bookstore repositories, configure Vagrant, build Docker images, run tests with docker‑compose, and push the resulting images to a private registry.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker, covering its definition, client‑server architecture, differences from traditional virtual machines, key advantages, essential terminology, installation steps, repository and image concepts, common Docker commands, Dockerfile instructions, container management, and volume handling, all illustrated with diagrams and code examples.
The article presents a comprehensive overview of mobile UI automation and performance testing practices, covering WalmartLabs' Appium-based framework, Taobao's SDK timing and frame‑drop analysis, quality assurance systems, crash analysis, static code scanning, AppCrawler, Macaca, MockServer usage, and Docker‑based test environments.
This article outlines ten essential facts about Docker—from its role as a software packaging and deployment tool and its roots in long‑standing container technology, to its cross‑platform support, performance advantages, rapid evolution, competition, and the cautions enterprises should consider before adopting it.
This article describes how to design and implement a closed‑loop data platform using Python, Java, and Spark stacks, covering data acquisition, structuring, mining, visualization, real‑time processing, and deployment with Docker, ELK, Kafka, and cloud services, illustrated by three industry case studies.
Learn how to quickly set up an isolated MySQL 5.7.13 instance using Docker containers, covering environment installation, image pulling, container launch with port mapping, copying the MySQL package, installing inside Ubuntu, and connecting from the host, all without affecting existing services.
This guide walks .NET developers through the history of .NET Core, explains why Docker is essential for modern development, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing Docker for Windows, configuring Visual Studio, creating a .NET Core web app, adding Docker support, and debugging the containerized application.
This article summarizes a 2016 Global Operations conference talk that explains how Docker and micro‑services reshape software delivery, covering Alibaba's container usage, cloud‑native principles, continuous integration, immutable infrastructure, and practical tips for deploying containers at scale.
This article introduces DevOps fundamentals, explains Docker's role and core components, outlines the advantages of containerizing DevOps pipelines, and shares a practical Rancher‑based implementation with detailed workflow, environment setup, and Q&A insights for modern software delivery.
The article explains Jenkins' single‑node and master‑slave deployment models, outlines the scalability and resource challenges of traditional setups, and proposes replacing test machines with Docker containers managed by Kubernetes or Swarm to improve efficiency, maintainability, and resource utilization.
The article explains how to achieve simple, fast, and lossless application migration by separating immutable binaries from external configuration, and how Docker containers and layered images can streamline deployment, scaling, configuration management, and persistent data handling.
This guide explains how to build Docker images, configure Redis, and orchestrate containers to create a fully automated, one‑click Redis sharding cluster, covering preparation, scripting, configuration, and verification steps.
The 2016 RightScale cloud computing survey of 1,060 respondents shows rapid growth in DevOps usage, a doubling of Docker adoption, diverse tool combinations, and highlights container challenges such as lack of experience, with Europe leading Docker usage and a strong push for education and practice.
The article describes how BoCloud leverages internet‑scale application architecture and Docker container technology to create a PaaS‑based, elastic IT platform that enables banks to handle high‑concurrency, rapid iteration, and agile operations for emerging micro‑finance services.
This article explains how to containerize Locust's distributed load‑testing mode using Docker, detailing image design, environment‑variable configuration, master‑slave networking, and example commands to run a scalable testing setup on Linux systems.
This article explains how Docker supports the three DevOps principles—system thinking, rapid feedback loops, and a culture of continuous experimentation—by accelerating development, reducing variation, and improving visibility across the software delivery pipeline.
This article details JD.com's journey from physical servers to a massive Docker‑based cloud‑native platform, covering challenges, architecture, elastic scheduling, monitoring, and resource‑driven operations that support tens of thousands of containers across multiple data centers.
This article explains a practical architecture for aggregating logs from distributed Docker containers by employing Flume NG as a lightweight log collector, Kafka as a high‑throughput message bus, and custom sinks to store logs per service, module and day with low latency and minimal resource impact.
This article presents a practical architecture for centrally collecting dispersed logs from Docker‑based services in a distributed environment by leveraging Flume NG as a non‑intrusive log agent, Kafka as a high‑throughput message bus, and custom sinks to partition logs by service, module, and day.
In this talk, a former Google SRE shares his experiences moving from massive YouTube growth to Google Cloud operations and later to a Chinese startup, exposing the hidden pitfalls of Docker daemon, image management, container runtimes, and practical DevOps strategies for building, packaging, and running services.
This article chronicles Liu Tiansi’s 13‑year journey from a PHP/Java developer to a senior operations engineer at Tencent, detailing his open‑source contributions, large‑scale CDN management, massive game data pipelines, DevOps practices, and practical lessons for building reliable, automated infrastructure.
This article explains why Docker services need monitoring, distinguishes black‑box and white‑box approaches, compares self‑hosted and SaaS monitoring stacks, and reviews key components and popular tools such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, Datadog, and Sysdig.
This article explains the fundamentals of microservices architecture, contrasting it with monolithic and SOA approaches, and details design principles, messaging patterns, integration styles, data decentralization, governance, service discovery, deployment with Docker and Kubernetes, security, transaction handling, and fault‑tolerance techniques.
Docker, built on Linux container technologies, offers a portable, cross‑platform runtime environment and a rich ecosystem—including image registries, orchestration tools, and cloud integrations—that simplifies development, deployment, and management of distributed applications, while providing resource isolation, high utilization, and DevOps automation.
The article explores the multiple demands on internet systems, explains why business service granularity is the biggest obstacle to microservice adoption, and shares practical insights on designing a cloud‑native platform with Docker, Kubernetes, unified monitoring, API governance, and multi‑tenant resource isolation.
The Meituan‑Dianping tech salon recap reveals how their frontend teams leverage Node.js for high‑traffic services, Docker‑based builds, a custom monitoring tool, a React‑powered H5 publishing platform, modern engineering scaffolds, and the Vane API integration system to dramatically improve development speed and reduce costs.
The article analyzes Microsoft’s introduction of a Linux‑compatible subsystem in Windows, explaining its technical architecture, performance advantages over emulation, and how it paves the way for Docker containers on Windows Server, thereby influencing cloud‑computing and DevOps strategies.
This tutorial demonstrates how to containerize a Java web application with Docker, build and test it using Maven, create a custom Tomcat‑based image, push the image to Alibaba Cloud’s registry, and finally deploy the service through Alibaba Cloud Container Service.
This article explains how to deploy a stateful MySQL service in Docker containers using the Autopilot pattern, Containerbuddy, Consul, and Percona XtraBackup to achieve automated bootstrapping, scaling, health‑checking, failover, and self‑healing without manual intervention.
The article details Upyun's high‑availability image processing architecture, covering workload‑aware system design, custom GmServer implementation, task scheduling, current strengths and limitations, and future directions such as a ServiceServer‑based queue and Docker‑driven dynamic scaling.
This article shares Cookpad’s practical experience with microservices, covering service granularity, RESTful integration, parallel processing, fault tolerance, testing strategies, logging, Docker‑based deployment pipelines, and company‑wide support mechanisms that together improve development speed and reliability.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of Dianping's operations architecture, detailing team organization, multi‑data‑center infrastructure, monitoring layers, automation tools, configuration management systems, incident analysis, lessons learned, and future directions such as Docker and PaaS adoption.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Cloudify, an open‑source cloud orchestration platform, covering its evolution from Java to Python, core components, architecture, integration with Docker and OpenStack, typical use cases, and practical deployment scenarios for efficient operations.
A Linux kernel bug caused virtual Ethernet (veth) devices in container environments to ignore TCP checksum validation, leading to corrupted data reaching applications, and the article explains the incident, investigation, reproducible tests, root cause in the veth driver, and the patch that resolves the issue.
This article explains how to capture Docker container logs, discusses the challenges of multi‑line log correlation, and presents two approaches—client‑side parsing and server‑side parsing—along with a concrete Flume customization using a DockerLog Java bean.
This article walks through a practical Docker‑based continuous deployment pipeline for a Java application, showing how Git, Jenkins, and Docker Registry can be configured to automatically build, test, and deploy code without manual intervention, complete with screenshots and FAQs.
This guide walks you through installing Docker on Ubuntu, covering supported versions, system prerequisites, kernel checks, step‑by‑step installation commands, verification, and explains how Docker integrates with Huawei's eSDK storage via Unicorn Hub.
This article collection explores how Mesos and Docker enable continuous delivery, argues that traditional operations roles are becoming obsolete amid automation and BizDevOps integration, and shares practical CMDB design experiences emphasizing top‑level modeling and ongoing improvement.
This article traces Docker’s origin from dotCloud, explains its core components, highlights its speed, resource efficiency and ecosystem advantages while noting limitations, outlines common use cases, and introduces Huawei’s Cloud Container Engine as a comprehensive cloud‑native solution.
InfoWorld’s 2016 Technology of the Year Awards spotlight Docker’s dominance, listing top container‑related projects such as Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, Mesos and others, while also covering a broad range of languages, tools, cloud services and big‑data platforms that shaped the tech landscape.
This article explains Docker's underlying architecture, covering why Docker needs a Linux VM on macOS/Windows, the roles of boot2docker and docker‑machine, and a step‑by‑step breakdown of what happens when you run the classic "docker run hello‑world" command.
This article explains how Docker’s build‑ship‑run model bridges front‑end development and containerization, covering Docker’s history, core concepts, a sample Dockerfile for a Node.js app, and practical scenarios where Docker improves environment consistency, resource efficiency, and scalability.
The article explains how Docker, likened to a shipping container, offers lightweight virtualization that solves environment dependency, enables rapid large‑scale deployment, and isolates applications, positioning it to transform software development and the broader program world.
This article explores the evolution of cloud platforms—from early virtualization (Cloud1.0) through resource‑centric Cloud2.0 to application‑centric PaaS (Cloud3.0)—detailing essential operations tasks such as resource allocation, deployment, service discovery, and log management, and outlining practical design choices using Docker, Mesos, and ELK.
In a 2016 TechTarget interview, Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill explains Joyent’s early adoption of OS‑level containers, the launch of its native container platform Triton, the current state of container technology, the need for better micro‑service migration strategies, and his outlook on the evolving cloud‑native ecosystem.
The article compares IBM Bluemix's Cloud Foundry and Docker, outlining their core concepts, key advantages such as ease of use versus portability, differences in packaging, scalability, service integration, and provides guidance on choosing the right platform for various application needs.
The article draws a parallel between the historical impact of shipping containers and Docker, arguing that Docker’s container ecosystem could reshape IT production, operations, and cloud services by enabling standardized, portable workloads and fostering a new era of collaborative software delivery.
