Last month, I discussed using Docker containers because they increase confidence in our deployed infrastructure. Now that we’ve decided to use this new tool, we need to learn how to use it well. After spending some more time with containers, I’d like to dive deeper into their benefits and the process of building (and rebuilding […]
Hey DevOps Engineers, Docker is ready! I started getting into Docker just under a year ago. It obviously had promise, but I couldn’t find many people using it successfully. Since then Docker has matured, and I’ve been recommending it to everyone doing CI/CD web-services. When the IT services industry first went to the dynamic virtual […]
Docker Inside Your Pipeline Docker has many applications in a modern CI/CD pipeline that make it a natural fit. In particular I use it for build containers and integrations testing. With docker you open up several capabilities that are not normally available to you with CI. First off, you can change your build environment without […]
Docker is amazing. These thin containers are much more resource efficient than full virtual machines, and I rarely need to have an OS that is much different from my host OS. What I really want to do is put up generic environment walls so that my application stack is happy, but not so separate that […]
