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Säntis Systems Summit Recap

The inaugural Säntis System Summit in Appenzell, Switzerland kicked off. The unconference was full of great people, topics, and beautiful scenery.

startup

Limit your Tech Toolset

It's easier than ever to buy new tools. Stop, first evaluate existing tools, do some information gathering, and combine the number of tools you have.

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Become a Docker Power User with Microsoft VS Code

VS Code combined with the Docker extensions will not only unlock amazing features but also allows us to increase productivity and reduce context switching.

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How a Single Raspberry Pi made my Home Network Faster

The Pi Hole project adds an entire new level of performance and security to our home network. Powered by Docker and a Raspberry PI I can now block all unwanted Ads and Metrics network wide.

Security

Transforming into an Open Business

Being Open and Transparent is more than Git projects. We are now opening our blog and company metrics to add more transparency to our business and industry.

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Configure Windows Server for Docker Development

Configure a Windows Server for your Docker Development environment. Matching the Windows Host OS in Development is important for consistency across environments.

startup

I Broke It

It's easy to get swept up in daily life. But I broke something that was important to me and that is sharing information.

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Journey to Docker Certified Associate

The journey from first using Docker, to becoming a Docker Captain, and now a Docker Certified Associate.

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Docker Prometheus Project Road to 1,000 Stars

The road to 1,000 GitHub stars for the Docker Prometheus project, learnings, and what's next. The project is being used around the world and continues to be updated and used.

Ghost CMS

Enough is Enough, Time for SaaS

After a couple tragic website outages I finally decided to investigate alternatives. SaaS is the way to focus more on delivering content and less about maintaining.

docker

Creating Cloud Agnostic Container Workloads

Ensuring our workloads conform to Cloud Native standard architecture is allowing more flexibility and portability while removing vendor lock-in.

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Introduction to Container Monitoring

This introduction to container monitoring explains why we should monitor containers and what is different about monitoring them versus VM's.

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How to Monitor a Traefik Reverse Proxy with Prometheus

Recently, I started using the reverse proxy Traefik [https://traefik.io/] as a default for my projects. Out of the box, Traefik supports Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and many others. What's unique about Traefik compared to NGINX or Apache is that it dynamically listens to your Orchestrator like Docker and knows

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How to monitor Docker for Mac/Windows

Monitoring is now baked into Docker for Mac/Windows by default. How cool is that? No longer do we need to guess about the performance of our development machines or test environments. Some may ask the Million Dollar $$ question as to why we would want to monitor our local installation.

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Test Driving Docker Function as a Service (FaaS)

Serverless is no longer just a buzzword for Docker it is now a reality. Recently, I had the opportunity to test drive the Docker Serverless project or better known as Docker FaaS [https://github.com/alexellis/faas] (Functions as a Service). Fellow Docker Captain Alex Ellis [https://twitter.com/alexellisuk]

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Monitor your GitHub Repos with Docker and Prometheus

GitHub is full of great code, information, and interesting statistics. GitHub repositories are full of statistics that make perfect candidates to graph with Grafana. The best way to graph this data is of course with Docker and Prometheus. Prometheus contains an impressive list of Exporters [https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/

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Containerize Everything

I discover new software daily. Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/] headlines, Product Hunt [https://www.producthunt.com/], or during conversations are some avenues of discovery. My curiosity wants to install and test everything. This is neither feasible or manageable for you or your computer's sake. Would you install 10

Life Hacking

5 Tips to Blog Smarter, not Harder

I started blogging seriously back in 2007. My first successful blog was a motorcycle blog that I intended to write primarily about my motorcycle rides and projects. The blog 2WheelTuesday which was recently deleted morphed into something much greater. It actually morphed into a small business. I learned a lot

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The Insiders Guide to Docker Serverless

The word Serverless plants a seed in our mind without knowing what it actually is. Are you visualizing empty data centers? Does Serverless mean we are abstracting servers from our infrastructure? Of course not. So what is Serverless and what benefit does it provide? Before answering the Serverless question we

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It's a Docker Pull Frenzy

This is a follow-up article on the metrics that were gathered after creating the article Track Docker Hub Metrics [https://www.brianchristner.io/how-to-track-docker-hub-metrics/] and the attention that this gained. I was completely floored when I witnessed the growth rate and how many pulls were actually occurring on the different

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How to Track Docker Hub Metrics

I'm quite fascinated with the growth in which we have witnessed with Docker. We have seen in 3 years Docker achieve over 6 Billion Pulls (Yes Billion with a B) in September. Amazing! A pull is essentially a download of a Docker image (Ubuntu, Redis, nginx, etc) from Docker Hub

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No More Ugly Upgrades

Gone are the days I used to sit in front of a green screen sweating with fear as a cursor blinked in front of me. The upgrade command seemed to wrap several times around the screen with so many flags, switches and built in hacks that we use to play

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Updated: Docker Monitoring Prometheus + Grafana

It's been almost a year since I started the initial Docker Monitoring project [https://github.com/vegasbrianc/docker-monitoring]. This project then spawned off into a Docker Prometheus stack [https://github.com/vegasbrianc/prometheus] shortly after when I discovered the cAdvisor integration. A year is a long time in Open Source

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Setting up a Mail Forwarder in Docker

I started my newsletter Five for Friday at the request of a couple readers in order to keep people updated on interesting and hot topics relating to Docker and general interesting tech news. I setup my newsletter with Gmail in combination with MailChimp. This combination worked great for sometime. I

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How to use Docker 1.12 Built-In Orchestration and Service Creation

I'm still quite a bit bummed about not being able to attend DockerCon this year. However, the news coming from DockerCon makes up for it in so many ways. As a member of the Docker Captains programmed I was fortunate enough to preview 1.12 and am quite amazed of