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Docker + Backup = Dockup

Docker + Backup = Dockup

Yesterday, I was called out by a colleague after he discovered I was backing up my Docker environments to Amazon S3 with some bash scripts and a crontab entry. This is a working solution but he asked ever so politely why I was not running this in a Docker container?

Great Day to Be Alive

Great Day to Be Alive

Playing American Football growing up I had a coach which was a bit looney. Actually, all of my coaches were a bit crazy but this one was king of the crazies. Before the start of every practice he would yell at the top of his lungs "It's a Great Day

Docker Cleanup Scripts Comparison

Docker Cleanup Scripts Comparison

If you've used Docker for any length of time you most likely have left a trail of unused (dangling) Docker images and containers in your dust. Abandoned images and containers are not necessarily a bad thing but starts becoming more of a housekeeping/administrative tasks to purge items which are

Time to Make Something

Time to Make Something

I'm going through a internal battle of what project I should start next. I've tried all the tricks of making short lists, pro/con comparisons and just about every other trick available. Time to close all my open apps and just Make Something. Don't fall prey to startup media hype.

Mac OSX Background Image Changer Program

Mac OSX Background Image Changer Program

I've been going through a phase of life hacking. It started with my morning routine [https://www.brianchristner.io/resuscitating-my-morning-routine/]. I then turned my focus to my Macbook where I spend a majority of my time during the day. I asked myself. How can I make my Mac a better

Review: Docker for Mac

Review: Docker for Mac

I received my Docker for Mac Beta invite recently. I saw quite some hype on Twitter about it's arrival and was looking forward to give it a go. Needless to say I'm impressed I've been a long time promoter and user of Docker Toolbox + Kitematic [https://www.docker.com/products/

Docker Tips: Save Time with this Quick Typing Hack

Docker Tips: Save Time with this Quick Typing Hack

I discovered this while attending DockerCon last year while a Docker engineer performed a demo. I'm a big fan of saving time especially when it comes to typing and was instantly in shocked to see this timesaver. I have yet to find this documented somewhere so best share this knowledge,

How to Create a Docker Business Case

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?" It's easy to jump right into the technical benefits

Docker Tips: How to Delete All Docker Containers and Images

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 notice unused containers and

My Docker Powered Ghost Blog Handled Hacker News Front Page

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 Blog was

Docker Official Images are Moving to Alpine Linux

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 is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux

Stop Getting Distracted and Get Shit Done

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

Battle of the Docker Orchestrators: Rancher vs Tutum

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

How to create your Success Definition

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 athlete. Below

2015 in Review and Goals for 2016

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 pales in comparison when

DockerCon Monitoring Presentation now available

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 well. Enjoy the presentation & video

2015 DockerCon EU Debrief

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

Traveling to 2015 DockerCon EU

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 my presentation. I guess

Ban PowerPoint before it Kills our Creativity

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

Road to DockerCon Europe

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

Resuscitating my Morning Routine

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 time and

How I broke my website which actually made it better

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

How to scale Docker Containers with Docker-Compose

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. What we are building

How to setup Prometheus Docker Monitoring

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 Base Image OS Size Comparison

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 lot of