• Docker

Top 10 Container Orchestration Tools

... Top 10 Container Orchestration Tools

The Importance of Container OrchestrationContainers have revolutionized how we distribute applications by allowing replicated test environments, portability, resource efficiency, scalability and unmatched isolation capabilities. While containers help us package applications for easier deployment and updating, we need a set of specialized tools to manage them. To help with this, orchestration...

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• Docker

Building Images Faster and Better With Multi-Stage Builds

... Building Images Faster and Better With Multi-Stage Builds

There is no doubt about the fact that Docker makes it very easy to deploy multiple applications on a single box. Be it different versions of the same tool, different applications with different version dependencies - Docker has you covered. But then nothing comes free. This flexibility comes with some...

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• AWS

Understanding Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

... Understanding Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS provides a Managed Kubernetes Service. Amazon does the undifferentiated heavy lifting, such as provisioning the cluster, performing upgrades and patching. Although it is compatible with existing plugins and tooling, EKS is not a proprietary AWS fork of Kubernetes in any way. This...

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• Kubernetes

Local Kubernetes testing with KIND

... Local Kubernetes testing with KIND

IntroIf you've spent days (or even weeks?) trying to spin up a Kubernetes cluster for learning purposes or to test your application, then your worries are over. Spawned from a Kubernetes Special Interest Group, KIND is a tool that provisions a Kubernetes cluster running IN Docker. From the docs: kind...

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• Docker

Reverse Engineer Docker Images into Dockerfiles

... Reverse Engineer Docker Images into Dockerfiles

TL;DR This article explores how we can reverse engineer Docker images by examining the internals of how Docker images store data, how to use tools to examine the different aspects of the image, and how we can create tools like Dedockify to leverage the Python Docker API to create...

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• Docker

Everything You Need to Know About Buildah

... Everything You Need to Know About Buildah

Buildah is a tool for building OCI-compatible images through a lower-level coreutils interface. Similar to Podman, Buildah doesn't depend on a daemon such as Docker or CRI-O, and it doesn't require root privileges. Buildah provides a command-line tool that replicates all the commands found in a Dockerfile. This allows you...

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• Docker

Create Serverless Functions with OpenFaaS

... Create Serverless Functions with OpenFaaS

OpenFaaS is serverless functions framework that runs on top of Docker and Kubernetes. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to: Deploy OpenFaaS to a Kubernetes clusterSet up the OpenFaaS CLICreate, build, and deploy serverless functions using the CLIInvoke serverless functions using the CLIUpdate an existing serverless functionDeploy serverless functions using...

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• Windows

Top GUI for Docker

... Top GUI for Docker

Are you still monitoring your containers in tons of console windows or passionate about knowing dozens of terminal commands? There are a couple of nice Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for Docker, that can make your life much simpler and increase your performance. Let’s select which one will suit you...

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