VS Code is one of the most popular open-source IDEs on the planet. It can work with a large number of languages, is quite user-friendly and available for Linux, macOS and Windows. Another very nice ...

When you have running containers, there might be a time when you have to connect to that container to run a command or handle some maintenance. Of course, you can always access the running container ...

I have been self-hosting several apps in Docker containers on my home server out of sheer convenience. Taking a leaf from the books of my XDA colleagues who use Docker in their home labs for ...

Take on "dependency hell" with Docker containers, the lightweight and nimble cousin of VMs. Learn how Docker makes applications portable and isolated by packaging them in containers based on LXC ...

It's surprisingly easy to deploy microservices in the AWS cloud. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) can pull images from Docker Hub and manage container workload with low-cost AWS Fargate clusters.

Many businesses rely on legacy applications, which may suffer from compatibility issues, maintenance challenges, and, frankly, inefficiency over time. Containerizing older applications with Docker is ...

After his introductory series, Tom Fenton deploys a database on Docker and integrates it with other apps deployed from other Docker images. In my Introduction to Docker series, I covered the basics of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and ...

Docker started out in 2012 as an open source project, originally named dotcloud, to build single-application Linux containers. Since then, Docker has become an immensely popular development tool, ...

A book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and it is no less true four decades later.