Awesome Docker

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What is Docker ?

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.

Source: What is Docker

Where to start ?

• 10-minute Interactive Tutorial
• Read this complete article: Basics – Docker, Containers, Hypervisors, CoreOS
• Watch the video: Docker for Developers (54:26) by @jpetazzo
• Install Docker on your machine and play with a few Useful Images
• Try Panamax: Docker Management for Humans It will install a CoreOS VM with VirtualBox and has nice front end
• Install Boot2Docker It works on Windows and OSX
• Install Kitematic Nice GUI, works on OSX
• Check out: Docker Cheat Sheet by @wsargent MUST SEE

MENU

• What is Docker ?
• Where to start ?
• Useful Articles
• Main Resources
• General Articles
• Deep Dive
• Metal
• Multi-Server
• Good Tips
• Continuous Integration
• Optimizing Images
• Service Discovery
• Security
• Performances
• Other
• Books
• Tools
  • Dev Tools
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
  • Hosting for repositories (registries)
  • Hosting for containers
  • Web Interface
  • Local Container Manager
  • Useful Images
  • Docker Files
  • Storing Images
  • Monitoring
  • Networking
  • Logging
  • Deployment and Infrastructure
  • Remote Container Manager / Orchestration
  • Service Discovery
• Slides
• Videos
  • Main Account
  • Useful videos
• Interesting Twitter Accounts

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Useful Articles

Main Resources

• Docker Weekly Huge resource
• Docker Cheat Sheet by @wsargent MUST SEE
• Century Links Labs
• Valuable Docker Links Very complete
• Docker Ecosystem (Mind Map) MUST SEE
• Blog of @jpetazzo
• Blog of @progrium
• Blog of @jwilder
• Blog of @crosbymichael
• Digital Ocean Community
• Container42
• Contrainer solutions

General Articles

• Getting Started with Docker by @fideloper -- Servers For Hackers is valuable resource. At some point, every programmer finds themselves needing to know their way around a server.
• How to Use Docker on OS X: The Missing Guide
• Docker for (Java) Developers
• Deploying NGINX with Docker
• Eight Docker Development Patterns

Deep Dive

• Creating containers - Part 1 This is part one of a series of blog posts detailing how docker creates containers. By @crosbymichael
• Data-only container madness

Metal

• How to use Docker on Full Metal

Multi-Server

• Using Fig and Flocker to build, test, deploy and migrate multi-server Dockerized apps
• blimp Uses Docker Machine to easily move a container from one Docker host to another, show containers running against all of your hosts, replicate a container across multiple hosts and more. By @defermat and @schvin

Good Tips

• 24 random docker tips by @csabapalfi
• GUI Apps with Docker by @fgrehm
• Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker by @jwilder
• Using NSEnter with Boot2Docker
• A Simple Way to Dockerize Applications by @jwilder
• Building good docker images by @jbergknoff
• 10 Things Not To Forget Before Deploying Docker In Production
• Make Your Docker Workflow Awesome With Fig.sh Fig is a python application that helps you run groups of docker containers.

Continuous Integration

• Docker and Phoenix: How to Make Your Continuous Integration More Awesome

Optimizing Images

• Create the smallest possible Docker container
• Creating a Docker image from your code
• Optimizing Docker Images
• How to Optimize Your Dockerfile by @tutumcloud
• Building Docker Images for Static Go Binaries by @kelseyhightower
• Squashing Docker Images by @jwilder
• Dockerfile Golf (or optimizing the Docker build process)

Service Discovery

• @progrium Service Discovery articles series:
• Consul Service Discovery with Docker
• Understanding Modern Service Discovery with Docker
• Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Security

• Docker and SELinux
• Bringing new security features to Docker
• Docker Secure Deployment Guidelines
• Security Best Practices for Building Docker Images
• Docker Security: Are Your Containers Tightly Secured to the Ship? SlideShare
• Tuning Docker with the newest security enhancements
• Lynis is an open source security auditing tool including Docker auditing

Performances

• Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Distrubuted JMeter testing using Docker
• nsinit: per-container resource monitoring of Docker containers on RHEL/Fedora

Other

• Presentation: Docker and JBoss - the perfect combination
• Vidéo
• Slides
• Code source

Books

• Docker Book by James Turnbul (@kartar)
• Docker in Action by Jeff Nickoloff (@allingeek)
• Docker in Practice by Ian Miell (@ianmiell) and Aidan Hobson Sayers (@aidanhs). ==> Website

Tools

• Docker
• Docker Images

Dev Tools

• GoSu ("run this specific application as this specific user and get out of the pipeline" -- entrypoint script tool) by @tianon
• ns-enter (no more ssh, enter name spaces of container) by @jpetazzo
• Squid-in-a-can (in case of proxy problem) by @jpetazzo
• docker-gen (Generate files from docker container meta-data) by @jwilder
• dockerize (Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers) by @jwilder
• registrator (Service registry bridge for Docker) by @progrium
• Dockly: Dockly is a gem made to ease the pain of packaging an application in Docker.
• docker-volumes (Docker Volume Manager) by @cpuguy83
• dockerfile_lint (A rule-based 'linter' for Dockerfiles) by @redhataccess
• powerstrip (A tool for prototyping Docker extensions)
• Vagga (Vagga is a containerisation tool without daemons. It is a fully-userspace container engine inspired by Vagrant and Docker, specialized for development environments.) by @tailhook
• dockerode (Not just another Docker Remote API node.js module) by @apocas

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

• Drone - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
• Docker plugin for Jenkins - The aim of the docker plugin is to be able to use a docker host to dynamically provision a slave, run a single build, then tear-down that slave.

Hosting for repositories (registries)

Securely store your Docker images.

• Docker Hub (provided by Docker Inc.)
• Quay.io (part of CoreOS) - Secure hosting for private Docker repositories
• Reesd - Private Docker repositories and redundant storage service by @noteed

Hosting for containers

• Orchard (part of Docker Inc) - Get a Docker host in the cloud, instantly.
• StackDock - Docker hosting on blazing fast dedicated infrastructure
• Tutum - Simple hosting for your Docker containers.
• Giant Swarm - Simple microservice infrastructure. Deploy your containers in seconds.
• Triton - Elastic container-native infrastructure by Joyent.
• Amazon ECS - A management service on EC2 that supports Docker containers.
• Google Container Engine - Docker containers on Google Cloud Computing powered by Kubernetes.

Web Interface

• Docker Registry Web (A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration) by @atc-
• DockerUI (DockerUI is a web interface to interact with the Remote API.) by @crosbymichael
• DockerBoard (Simple dashboards, visualizations, managements for your dockers.) by @dockerboard

Local Container Manager

• Fig (Fast, isolated development environments using Docker) -- http://www.fig.sh
• Shutit (a tool for building and maintaining complex Docker deployments) by @ianmiell
• FuGu (a docker run wrapper without orchestration) by @mattes
• Boot2Docker (docker for OSX and Windows) -- http://boot2docker.io/
• Vessel (Vessel automates the setup & use of dockerized development environments)
• OctoHost (Simple web focused Docker based mini-PaaS server. git push to deploy your websites as needed) by @octohost
• Dokku (Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash) by @progrium
• Ansible - manage docker containers
• Vagrant - Docker provider a good starting point is vagrant-docker-example by @bubenkoff

Useful Images

• Base Image by @phusion
• Busybox (with either buildroot or Ubuntu's busybox-static) by @jpetazzo
• Busybox (with opkg) by @progrium [@deprecated use docker-alpine instead]
• OpenWRT by @zoobab
• Phusion Docker Hub Account
• passenger-docker (Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps) by @phusion
• docker-alpine (A super small Docker base image (5MB) using Alpine Linux) by @gliderlabs

Docker Files

• Dockerfile Project : Trusted Automated Docker Builds. Dockerfile Project maintains a central repository of Dockerfile for various popular open source software services runnable on a Docker container.
• Collection of Dockerfiles by @crosbymichael
• DockerFile Example by @komljen

Storing Images

• Docker Registry (Registry server for Docker (hosting/delivering of repositories and images))

Monitoring

• Seagull (Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon.)
• Dockerana (packaged version of Graphite and Grafana, specifically targeted at metrics from Docker.)
• Docker-mon (Console-based Docker monitoring) by @icecrime

Networking

• Weave (The Docker network) -- Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts.

Logging

• LogJam (Logjam is a log forwarder designed to listen on a local port, receive log entries over UDP, and forward these messages on to a log collecton server (such as logstash).)

Deployment and Infrastructure

• Centurion: Centurion is a mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. It takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings.
• Clocker: Clocker creates and manages a Docker cloud infrastructure. Clocker supports single-click deployments and runtime management of multi-node applications that run as containers distributed across multiple hosts. It leverages Weave for networking and [Brooklyn][boorklyn] for application blueprints.
• Cloud 66 - Full-stack hosted container management as a service
• Docket: Custom docker registry that allows for lightning fast deploys through bittorrent by @netvarun
• Longshoreman: Longshoreman automates application deployment using Docker. Just create a Docker repository (or use a service), configure the cluster using AWS or Digital Ocean (or whatever you like) and deploy applications using a Heroku-like CLI tool.

Remote Container Manager / Orchestration

• Kubernetes (Open source orchestration system for Docker containers by Google) -- http://kubernetes.io
• Shipyard (Composable Docker Management) -- http://shipyard-project.com/
• Panamax (Docker Management for Humans) -- http://panamax.io/
• Flynn (A next generation open source platform as a service (PaaS)) -- https://flynn.io/
• Deis (Your PaaS, your rules) -- http://deis.io/
• Gaudi (Gaudi allows to share multi-component applications, based on Docker, Go, and YAM) -- http://gaudi.io/
• CoreOS (Linux for Massive Server Deployments) -- https://coreos.com/
• Rancher (Portable AWS-style infrastructure service for Docker) -- http://www.rancher.io/
• dokku-alt (Dokku fork with Dockerfile support, database plugins, ACL and more)
• cAdvisor (Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers)
• Docker container on Mesos (Docker plus Mesosphere provides an easy way to automate and scale deployment of containers in a production environment.)
• Marathon (Marathon is a private PaaS built on Mesos. It automatically handles hardware or software failures and ensures that an app is "always on".)
• Serf (Service orchestration and management tool.) by @hashicorp
• Flocker (Flocker is a data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool) by @ClusterHQ
• Decking: (Decking aims to simplify the creation, organsation and running of clusters of Docker containers in a way which is familiar to developers.)
• Maestro: (Maestro provides the ability to easily launch, orchestrate and manage mulitiple Docker containers as single unit.)

Service Discovery

• docker-consul by @progrium
• etcd: A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery
• Docker Grand Ambassador This is a fully dynamic docker link ambassador. + Article
• confd: Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.

Slides

• Docker Slideshare Account
• Docker Security with @jpetazzo

Videos

Main Account

• Docker Youtube Account
• CenturyLink Labs Docker Interviews
• YLD Event Conference about containers!!! @YLDio

Useful videos

• Docker for Developers (54:26) by @jpetazzo <== Good introduction, context, demo
• SysAdminCasts: Introduction to Docker (15:49)
• Orchestrating Docker containers in production using Fig (7:11)
• Development Environments with Fig by Aanand Prasad (17:58)
• Docker in Production by @jpetazzo (36:05)
• Docker: How to Use Your Own Private Registry (15:01)
• Contributing to Docker by Andrew "Tianon" Page (InfoSiftr) (34:31)
• Performance Analysis of Docker - Jeremy Eder (1:36:58)
• Docker and SELinux by Daniel Walsh from Red Hat (40:23)
• Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and EC2 by Michael Bryzek (Gilt) (42:04)
• Ansible and Docker HP (32:38)
• Run Any App on Mesos on Any Infrastructure Using Docker (17:44)
• Extending Docker with Plugins (15:21)

Interesting Twitter Accounts

• Docker
• Century Link Labs
• Flux7Labs
• TutumCloud
• Project Atomic
• Openshift By Red Hat
• YLD

People

• Solomon Hykes Founder of Docker
• Gabriel Monroy Creator of Deis
• Jérôme Petazzoni Docker Developer
• Michael Crosby Docker Developer
• James Turnbull Author of Docker Book
• Jeff Lindsay Design-minded software architect