Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): It is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows to run applications easily on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Cluster: Amazon ECS cluster is basically a logical grouping of tasks or services. All these tasks and services run on infrastructure that is […]
Posts Tagged ‘Container’
Why Should Enterprises Invest in VMware Tanzu Mission Control?
Enterprises are slowly realizing that they quickly need to adopt cloud-native technologies such as Containers and Kubernetes to accelerate their Digital Transformation initiatives. These technologies are the driving forces behind legacy application modernization and net new cloud-native applications that are needed to meet the ever changing demands of customers. These technologies provide various benefits for […]
Key Takeaways of the VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition
In our previous blog VMware Tanzu: Highlights of the Basic Edition, we explored the benefits of the VMware Tanzu Basic edition and how it is optimal for enterprises at the beginning stages of their application modernization journeys because it allows you to run containerized-off-the-shelf (COTS) workflows on-premise as part of vSphere. In our Key Takeaways […]
Docker Bootcamp – Environment Variables
Welcome back to Docker Bootcamp. In this post, we’ll cover the use of environment variables. These special variables let you modify the execution of the application inside the container without modifying the application’s files. Each time you create a container from the same image, you can pass different values for the environment variables. Terminology Environment […]
Docker for Windows with building Docker images
What is Docker? Docker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Docker containers are light weighted when compared to virtual machines. The keywords of Docker are develop, ship and run anywhere. The whole idea of Docker is for developers to easily develop applications, ship them into containers […]
CodeExchange – twilio-dev-container
Twilio has introduced a new program for developers and partners to share code called CodeExchange. This provides a curated list of Twilio-focused content and we are taking our first steps to contribute back to the wider community with examples and tooling. This post will focus on onboarding and how to get a quick start environment […]
Automating Docker Image builds
Why automate? Similar to any other automation, we get consistent results once we have automation in place. It speeds up the development process. You can produce the same result by following the same steps, so there is less of a change that it will work sometimes and not work other times. What is required to […]
Docker Swarm Quick Overview
Docker Swarm helps you create and manage Docker Clusters. Docker Swarm automatically handle scaling up and down depending on number of task you want to run. Docker swarm can handle load balancing internally among containers. Docker Swarm Components Docker Swarm contains following key components. Node – Special Container that run on each Swarm host. Node […]
Docker Container Best Practices
It is preferable to use Dockerfile to create an image. Using Dockerfile is the only way you can be sure of reproducing the same image every time. Use a Layered approach, but keep in mind that Docker imposes limits on the number of layers an image can have. To minimize layer, you can combine commands […]
An Introduction to Docker and Containers
Containers: Containers represent operating system level virtualizations which help you run multiple isolated systems i.e. containers in same machine. Docker: Docker is a containerization engine which means that it lets you create containers to achieve operating system level virtualization. Docker allows you to automate the containerization process. We can store Docker images in a Docker […]