Starting Docker: Working inside a container

Starting Docker: Working inside a container

Friday, Dec 9, 2016
So, you successfully have your containers and you have started to be able to run containers to do stuff. Brilliant. So let us drop into those containers and run something new. You are probably half way there with your understanding, maybe we could say that you have just opened the door on containers, well, you are just about to step in an see how big the room is! Containers give you great, little, isolated machines that you can do with as you please and then throw away. ...

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Starting Docker: Running containers

Starting Docker: Running containers

Friday, Dec 2, 2016
So, you have successfully installed Docker. Brilliant! Now, what?! Well, the obvious thing to do is to go about running some containers. The Docker documentation suggests that you should pull and run the Hello World container, and although it is small, there are much better things we can do straight away to start to show the power of Docker. Docker Pull & Docker Hub To get started with running containers, you are first going to need to get some containers. ...

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Starting Docker: Installation

Starting Docker: Installation

Thursday, Dec 1, 2016
Unless you have been living under a metaphorical rock you will have heard about Docker. But although lots of people have heard of Docker, far fewer are using it day-to-day and even less in production. In this short post, I am going to go over what Docker (and containers are) and how you can start to get up and running with Docker. What is Docker? Wikipedia describes Docker as: Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers. ...

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