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As mentioned in a post back in February I have been working on my second book for Packt Publishing↗ which is now available for pre-order. You can pre-order your copy from the Packt website↗ or Amazon↗ .

As mentioned in my previous post I have been doing a lot of work with Docker Machine↗ and Docker Swarm↗ recently, to configure mulit-host networking with the latest version of Docker I needed to use a service discovery tool. As I had played with Consul↗ in the past I decided to use that for my back-end service discovery. Now if I wanted to launch a single node then I would run the following; ...

I have been quiet on here as I am in the process of writing again, one of things I have been looking at is Dockers new networking features. This gave me an excuse to have a play with Weave. Rather than go into too much detail here, lets go all click bait because you won’t believe what happened next. I launched two hosts in Digital Ocean↗ , one in London and then one in New York City using Docker Machine; ...

I had a play with the excellent Alpine Linux↗ over the weekend. Alpine describes itself as; Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. And by lightweight they really do mean lightweight, with an 8MB container size and a 130MB bare metal installation it is tiny. Because of this I decided to use it as the new base images for my Docker Images↗ as some of them were getting a little bloated. As you can see from the table below, the difference in the final image size is staggering … ...

Here are my top ten and bit albums of 2015 (yes I know one is a remake, one was first released in 2014 and one is an EP). Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.↗ Vennart The Demon Joke↗ Charlie Barnes More Stately Mansions↗ Leon Bridges Coming Home↗ Sweet Billy Pilgrim Motorcade Amnesiacs↗ Nordic Giants A Séance of Dark Delusions↗ ...

Jenkins has always been a bit of an elephant in the room to me. Not being a developer I have always just shrugged it off a tool used for running unit tests, however, as I moving more into orchestration and automation I am finding the need for a tool which can run both tasks and unit tests, so this weekend I decided to finally take the plunge and have a play around with it. ...

As mentioned in a post a few months ago I have been working on a book about the various ways you can approach monitoring your Docker containers, I am proud to announce that it was published today by Packt Publishing↗ . You can order your copy from the Packt website↗ or Amazon↗ . A free sample of the book can be found here↗ .

I have been reading about Flocker↗ for quite a while and it’s been something I have been meaning to look at since the introduction of plugins back in the Docker 1.7 release↗ . But I have been busy looking at other parts of Docker. Since I had a few hours this weekend I thought it was about time and had a play. ClusterHQ describes Flocker as; Flocker is an open-source container data volume manager for your Dockerized application. It gives ops teams the tools they need to run containerized stateful services like databases in production. ...