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Even now, mid summer, the container tech world keeps churning out amazing content, so here it is again: a monthly newsletter to share the latest happenings in the container ecosystem across vendors and open source projects like Docker, Kubernetes, DC/OS Mesos, Openshift, and more.
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DOCKER
Docker security best practices
This article elegantly outlines the main container-related security threats and the
best practices and tools to protect from them.
Test ELK in PWD
Build your own
Elastic Stack using Play-With-Docker Swarm mode in just 5 minutes, step-by-step and very easy to follow.
Azure Container Instances
Azure
Container Instances start in seconds and are billed by the second. Current container management tools and a promising roadmap.
Docker Swarm Orchestration
Series of three extensive and methodical posts on Docker Swarm that present all the fundamental concepts.
Install,
scheduling services,
consuming services.
SQL Server 2017 Docker image
SQL Server on Ubuntu? Yes, of course! Here’s a practical
tutorial on deploying Microsoft’s database using Docker containers.
Traefik as a Docker reverse proxy
Experiences of using Traefik as the
reverse proxy (or ingress controller) for a docker-compose cluster of containers.
Write your own Docker auth plugin
The Docker daemon is extensible. The author of this
blogpost explains and shares the code of his own Docker auth plugin to fine tune API access.
Reproducible research: StarCraft
An actually serious research on strategic
StarCraft planification: Using Docker to make experiments reproducible over any host system.
Sign all the things!
Notary + LinuxKit, a match made in heaven. Get
every LinuxKit package signed to improve the modularity without having to renounce to verifiability and security.
KUBERNETES
Kubernetes 1.7 What’s new
Kubernetes 1.7 is here already. Persistent storage, secrets management, extra extensibility. Learn
what’s new.
Play with K8S
Sure you have heard about ‘Play with Docker’, but wouldn’t it be awesome to have a similar Kubernetes playground? This guys are
getting there.
Intro to the Kubernetes Architecture
A well organized glossary of all the entities that conform a Kubernetes cluster. It’s a really useful
Kubernetes cheat sheet for newcomers.
Cluster schedulers
A really extensive and complete
article covering container scheduling, an often overlooked and somewhat frightening piece of software.
Etcd operator
This (beta)
tool from the CoreOS teams aims to streamline the management of the etcd node clusters that supports Kubernetes.
Secured Kubernetes cluster on AWS with Kops
This
post will guide you creating a new K8S cluster on AWS and establishing its security foundations, roles and auth mechanisms.
The day your laptop became a datacenter
Exciting title, right? 15 minutes, Rancher, Docker Virtualbox and
your laptop is all you need.
Linux Foundation – Free introduction to Kubernetes
Containers are IT’s future, and the Linux Foundation now offers you a free Kubernetes
online class to get your skills up to speed.
Kubernetes templating
Templating is in the process of being
standardized. You will be able to replace some fixed values in the YAML conf files with the appropriate context variables.
OPENSHIFT
Five OpenShift development environments
In five minutes, that’s how easy and fast is to start experimenting with the OpenShift environment. Really impressive
compilation.
Deploy Helm charts on your local OpenShift
How-to install the client and server sides of Helm in your local Minishift deployment and test the entire collection of readily-available
Helm charts in a playground environment.
Red Hat: the next cloud giant?
With the OpenShift Online cloud platform and several other changes in their software and offering, Red Hat is rapidly positioning itself as a
strong cloud player.
MESOS
A Q&A with Mesosphere
An enjoyable, easy to read blogpost in the form of
questions and answers to understand the basic concepts, strengths and goals of Mesos and DC/OS.
Building modern data-rich applications
The IT challenges once faced by Google, Facebook, etc are commonplace business challenges today. Thrive in this
big-data fast-autoscaling world using Mesosphere.
SMACK stack, the webinar
We already talked about the SMACK stack (allegedly the new LAMP). Do not miss
this webinar outlining every piece of the architecture, customer examples and demos.
SYSDIG
Sysdig Camp-Con-World-Fest-Summit – UPDATE Register Now!
Sept 26-27 in San Francisco. This is the hands-on container conference. Check out our
updated agenda. Keynotes by Kelsey Hightower from Google, Diogo Monica from Docker and Loris Degioanni our CEO/Founder Sysdig and more. Plus just announced 4 hour Container Troubleshooting Workshop. Plus just announced 4 hour Container Troubleshooting Workshop. Call for Papers Closes Aug 1.
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Csysdig explained visually
Gentle introduction to
csysdig, an htop like container
troubleshooting tool that natively acquires Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos metadata and context.
List of Docker and containers events in EU & US
Catch up with the container news and it’s people. Must-Attend Docker and containers
events and conferences in EU and US. When, Where and Why.