If you are like me then you have probably written the following code a lot as the first command in your Dockerfile: RUN apt-get update && apt-get install git wget or maybe you need to build a C program to run in your container and use something like this: RUN apt-get update && \ apt-get install autoconf… Continue reading Container of the Week – buildpack-deps
Month: April 2017
LinuxKit – the software-defined OS
If you were lucky enough to go to DockerCon 2017 (I wasn’t) you might have seen the announcement of Moby and LinuxKit, Docker’s new framework for assembling specialised container systems. Traditionally a bare metal or virtual machine that runs Docker has run a “full service” distribution like Debian, Ubuntu or RedHat Linux. Docker and containerized applications are then installed and run on… Continue reading LinuxKit – the software-defined OS
Kubernetes Command Line Completion
I recently wrote an article about command line completion for Docker. This is the parallel article for Kubernetes. The TLDR for command line completion in Docker was that it probably already works just fine. The same is not true for Kubernetes but is easily fixed. Overall, the installation process for Kubernetes is still slightly complicated and there are… Continue reading Kubernetes Command Line Completion
Container of the Week – debian:jessie-slim
This week we are going to look at a very simple container, but one that I personally did not know about up until a few days ago. It’s a standard base container, but one with an important property that many users of Docker and Kubernetes are concerned about. A base container is the container image used… Continue reading Container of the Week – debian:jessie-slim