Brian is a nominated member of the Docker Captain’s program and a seasoned DevOps engineer specializing in Docker, Cloud Native, DevOps, and Monitoring.
Docker
What an exciting journey this has turned out to be. What started out as simple curiosity about learning about Docker has actually led to some amazing opportunities. I first installed Docker during the 0.6.x version, which was about six months after the initial Docker release. My first thoughts
Life Hacking
My morning routine probably sounds like most people. Wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, drink lot's of coffee, consume Twitter and FB feeds until I have to make a mad dash out the door. I really felt my morning routine was just a waste of energy and
Docker
My tinkering with things can sometimes result in extra parts lying around after the project is finished, and I don't know where they fit. The same was the case recently when updating this website. Well, I broke it—bad! A little background. This website is running inside a
Docker
Learn how to scale Docker containers efficiently using Docker Compose. This guide covers scaling services, managing stateful apps, and monitoring scaled containers.
Docker
Continuing with the great response from the Docker Monitoring post. I am following up by investigating the setup of Prometheus. I first discovered Prometheus while making changes to the cAdvisor documentation and noticed that cAdvisor now integrates with Prometheus. So, what is Prometheus? Prometheus was a solution created by SoundCloud
Docker
Compare the sizes of popular Docker base OS images like Alpine, Ubuntu, and Debian. Learn why image size matters, the smallest available images, performance impacts, and trade-offs involved in choosing the right base OS for your containers.
Open Source
I used to be able to do these tasks with my eyes closed with AIX and other version of Linux and Unix. Today my brain blue screened on me while trying to expand my Ubuntu machine's root volume group, logical volume, and filesystem. Wow it's been
Docker
Learn how to set up Docker monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and cAdvisor. Discover essential metrics to track, steps to configure monitoring tools, and how to set up alerts for maintaining a healthy Docker environment.
Docker
The more time I spend with Docker the more ideas and problems I can solve with Docker Tutum. This article describes how to create an Automated Docker Build that GitHub -> Docker Hub -> Tutum. I've come across several articles that describe one portion of this
Open Source
I'm working on building a my own Cloud Platform based on Docker and CoreOS. Howerver my underlying infrastrucutre is VMware vCloud which is not exactly straight forward in comparison to Amazon EC2 or Digital Ocean when installing CoreOS. VMWare has a really nice CoreOS tutorial but it is
Life Hacking
Discover the latest advancements in mountain bikes, from carbon fiber frames to cutting-edge suspension systems. Learn how new technology is improving the mountain biking experience.
Security
I was very doubtful to learn of the new offering by CloudFlare SSL and actually procratenated on installing it until yesterday. How the heck can they offer SSL for Free without having to install certificates? Since Google ranks SSLbased sites higher than non https sites it was time to make