Credit: Victoire Joncheray modified by IDG Comm. Docker containers are used to provide a lightweight and more portable alternative to virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines, which must bundle a ...

Tom demos table joins, shell scripts for repetitive tasks and using "exec" to run commands inside a container from the host system. In my previous article on running applications on Docker, I deployed ...

Ever since I started exploring the self-hosted landscape, I've deployed hundreds of containers on Docker. After all, it's one of the simplest ways to host apps on your local server. It's also helpful ...

Docker Windows Server containers let you run programs on Windows in a lightweight and isolated environment. They work like small packages that include everything a program needs to run, such as the ...

Like me, you've probably heard the unofficial rule of Docker: it's for lightweight, headless servers and command-line applications, not for graphical interfaces. Most of us follow this rule for good ...

Docker Inc. today introduced two new offerings, Docker Build and Docker Debug, that promise to help software teams develop container applications faster. The offerings are currently in public beta.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. By default, the Nginx Docker image is configured as a file server, not a reverse proxy or a load ...