Docker

When I arrived at OCTO Technology in 2014, I immediately loved and embraced its culture of team spirit and sharing and improvements of practices, which are an integral part of OCTO’s DNA. And thus the « I » rapidly turned into a « We ». This culture also lies in the different community teams, a.k.a tribes. Each team organizes itself depending on its size and what they want to work on, to gather regularly and to share. In this article, the OPS tribe will show how 3…

As we saw in the previous post, Docker basic usage seems pretty simple. Let's try to dig a little deeper into the configuration management. From an OPS perspective, we can consider containers as application black boxes, without caring about how they are built, and simply use them. However there are several aspects of a container that must be configured to ensure their correct integration in an information system.

Here at Octo, we are fond of Docker. Not because we completely master it, but because we don't (yet). And as DevOps-minded guys, we like new perspectives in Dev / Ops relationship. Docker is mainly about this, shifting each other's expectation. Now that the 0.7 and 0.8 releases are out, its production readiness has never been closer and it's getting pretty exciting. In a previous article, we've answered a few questions allowing to understand the basic concepts of Dockers, let's play around with few Docker…

After talking a while with few co-workers about Docker versus LXC and regular VMs, it appeared that a few questions and answers could help people understand the concepts and their main differences.