docker How to Create a Docker Business Case Like many of you I'm constantly questioned by upper management types to describe Docker. The questions I'm constantly asked by these people range from - "What is Docker", "How will Docker benefit my business or team?", "How much does it cost?
docker Docker Tips: How to Delete All Docker Containers and Images It's time to start sharing some tips I've found along the way while using Docker. You may come upon a time where you will be required to clean up your Docker installation. If you have used docker for any length of time you will start to
docker My Docker Powered Ghost Blog Handled Hacker News Front Page Life tends to sit in the corner waiting to catch you off guard. Much like my infant son, he waits till I'm out of arms reach to try one of his kamikaze moves ending 9 times out of 10 in a face plant. However, my Docker powered Ghost
docker Docker Official Images are Moving to Alpine Linux Alpine Linux [http://www.alpinelinux.org] is actually near and dear to my heart. I've actually started experimenting with Alpine Linux awhile back with several of my projects, then drank the Kool-Aid and became a convert shortly after. For those that don't know: "Alpine Linux
Life Hacking Stop Getting Distracted and Get Shit Done It’s getting harder and harder to dedicate myself to a single project. With the overwhelming amount of information that is thrown at me daily via Facebook, Twitter [https://twitter.com/idomyowntricks], email, Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com] and just about all cool projects on GitHub. How does one
docker Battle of the Docker Orchestrators: Rancher vs Tutum The Docker Orchestration race continues to heat up. With a ton of great tools on the market and new tools arriving almost daily makes it difficult to stay up to date with all the developments. @veggiemonk [https://github.com/veggiemonk] and I try to stay on top of the Awesome
random How to create your Success Definition I've been looking in all the wrong places when trying to find and be successful when in fact it is all around me. The first thing that used to come to mind when defining success is financial success, entrepreneurship, or fame i.e. being a movie star or
Mountain Bike 2015 in Review and Goals for 2016 As I look back on 2014 year in review/2015 Goals post [https://www.brianchristner.io/2014-in-review-and-goals-for-2015/] I'm quite happy with what I've accomplished. However not a goal or accomplishment, the birth of our son Flynn was the biggest blessing I could ever imagine. Everything else
docker DockerCon Monitoring Presentation now available Docker has had their hands full editing hours of amazing video content from the DockerCon EU 2015. I'm actually catching up on sessions I wasn't able to attend as well. It gives me great pleasure to announce that my presentation & video is now live as
docker 2015 DockerCon EU Debrief I’m on my flight from Barcelona (goodbye sunshine) to Zürich decompressing from from all the announcements, tech talks and new connections made during the last 2 days. DockerCon EU delivered on everything they promised. I was finally able to talk to people in person that I’ve been following
docker Traveling to 2015 DockerCon EU I'm currently somewhere over Europe traveling to DockerCon at warp speed or as fast as this Swiss Airlines Airbus A321 will allow us to fly. I've been preparing for DockerCon for quite sometime. I actually used my 4 month old son as my audience to practice
random Ban PowerPoint before it Kills our Creativity Over time PowerPoint has become the de facto application that is used at meetings around the world regardless of which topic or meeting format. However once a PowerPoint presentation is presented at a meeting the meeting turns from bi-directional to a broadcast communication format. PowerPoint is killing discussions and open
docker Road to DockerCon Europe 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 initially installed Docker for the first time during the 0.6.x version time frame or about 6 months after the initial
Life Hacking Resuscitating my Morning Routine 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 How I broke my website which actually made it better My tinkering with things can sometimes result in extra parts laying around after the project is finished and not knowing 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 container which
docker How to scale Docker Containers with Docker-Compose I've been working on a few projects at the moment and scaling keeps coming to a head. So let's take a look on how to scale a Docker web services stack with Docker-Compose. Before we get started we need to lay a bit of ground work.
docker How to setup Prometheus Docker Monitoring Continuing with the great response from the Docker Monitoring [https://www.brianchristner.io/how-to-setup-docker-monitoring/] post. I am following up by investigating the setup of Prometheus. I first discovered Prometheus while making some changes to the cAdvisor [https://github.com/google/cadvisor] documentation and noticed that cAdvisor now integrates with Prometheus.
docker Docker Base Image OS Size Comparison The race to zero is a theme that is catching on with Docker Images. Developers are racing to create the thinest most usable image possible. But why, do you ask? If you've used Docker for any period of time then you will quickly realize that you spend a
Linux How to Resize Ubuntu Root Partition 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 How to setup Docker Monitoring Docker monitoring of servers and containers is becoming necessary the more Docker hosts and containers we provision. This tutorial will walk you through how to glue together several different components in order to achieve Docker monitoring. Components for Docker Monitoring First things first. We assume that Docker is installed, configured,
docker How to Automate Docker Builds and Auto Deploy The more time I spend with Docker the more ideas and problems I can solve with Docker. Using Docker in combination with other services expands the possabilites even further such as Tutum [https://www.tutum.co/]. This article describes how to create an Automated Docker Build that auto deploys Docker
VMware How to install and configure CoreOS inside VMware 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 [http://kb.vmware.
Mountain Bike The Amazing Advancements in Mountain Bikes When I moved to Switzerland back in 2010 I purchased a Rocky Mountain Instinct full suspension Mountain Bike. Since moving to Switzerland I've really been riding as much as I can as I really love the sport and the people that I ride with. My journey with Mountain
NGINX How to convert your website to SSL for Free I was very doubtful to learn of the new offering by CloudFlare SSL [https://www.cloudflare.com/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 SSL [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2014/08/
Mac OSX Error connecting with RDP to Windows Server I was having trouble creating an RDP client for Mac to a Windows Server. When I RDP to tha same Windows machine from another Windows machine everything worked as advertised. When I opened a RDP connection from my Mac to the Windows Server I would ge the following error: "