Getting Started with Kubernetes on Windows
Kubernetes now supports Windows machines as worker nodes. You can spin up a hybrid cluster and have Windows workloads running in Windows pods, talking to Linux workloads running in Linux pods.
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ARMing a Hybrid Docker Swarm: Part 4 - Reverse Proxying with Traefik
A reverse proxy quickly becomes a must-have when you're running a container orchestrator with more than a couple of services. Network ports are single-occupancy resources, you can't have multiple processes listening on
Adventures in Docker: Coding on a Remote Browser
This adventure lets you code on your normal dev machine from some other machine, using the browser. It's powered by Docker plus:
- code-server - VS Code running in a container with browser
ARMing a Hybrid Docker Swarm: Part 3 - Name Resolution with Dnsmasq
It's very cool setting up a 10-node Docker Swarm for less than the cost of a modest SoHo server (is SoHo still a thing?). But the more nodes you have, the less
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