ARMing a Hybrid Docker Swarm: Part 2 - Deploying the Swarm
Docker Swarm is a super easy container orchestrator. It is more opionated and less configurgable than Kubernetes. There are some things Kube can do which Swarm can't, but payback for that is
ARMing a Hybrid Docker Swarm: Part 1 - Hardware and OS
Docker is a fantastic technology for making your apps uniform. Everything in a container has the same set of artifacts to build it and the same workflow to run it - whether
Your Must-Have PowerShell Aliases for Docker
There's a bunch of docker commands I run all the time, and I've saved countless hours of typing and making typos and fixing typos by putting them in PowerShell aliases. When I
6 Things You Can Do with Docker in Windows Server 2019 That You Couldn't Do in Windows Server 2016
There are thousands of Windows Server 2016 machines running Docker containers in production, but there's always been a small functionality gap between Windows containers and Linux containers. Windows Server 2019 closes most
Getting Started with Docker on Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 is the next long-term support release of Windows Server, and it's available now! It comes with some very useful improvements to running Docker Windows containers - which Docker Captain
Windows Weekly Dockerfile #26: Managing & Upgrading Apps with Docker Compose
This is #26 in the Windows Dockerfile series, where I look at running, managing and upgrading distributed apps in Docker using Docker Compose.
There are 52 Dockerfiles in the source code for
Monitoring Containerized Application Health with Docker
My latest Pluralsight course is live! This one covers all you need to know about monitoring apps when you're running in Docker containers on Linux and Windows:
Windows Weekly Dockerfile #25: Self-Service Analytics for Legacy .NET Apps
This is #25 in the Windows Dockerfile series, where I look at running a .NET Core console app in Docker on Windows, which adds powerful self-service analytics to the legacy Nerd Dinner
Windows Weekly Dockerfile #24: Building Distributed .NET Apps
This is #24 in the Windows Dockerfile series, where I look at one pattern for building distributed .NET apps using Docker. This is the build-everything-together pattern, which is less common but good
Windows Weekly Dockerfile #23: Building Mixed .NET and .NET Core Solutions
This is #23 in the Windows Dockerfile series, where I walk through options for building .NET Framework, .NET Standard and .NET Core projects in containers - no build server required, you'll build
Windows Weekly Dockerfile #22: Extracting Features from Monoliths
This is #22 in the Windows Dockerfile series, where I demonstrate extracting a feature from a monolith and running it in a separate container.
There are 52 Dockerfiles in the source code
What We Talk About When We Talk About "Modernizing Traditional Apps"
Last month was Docker's fifth birthday, and the Docker platform has come a long way in that time. One of the biggest - and most exciting - developments for me is how