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  Top 5 Blog Posts of 2018: Introducing the New Docker Hub
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  In case you missed our announcement a couple of weeks ago, Docker Hub now has an improved user experience for finding, storing and sharing Docker container images. Our second most popular blog of 2018 gives users a preview of the new Docker Hub. Read on to learn more about what’s new on Docker Hub!

   

  Today, we’re excited to announce that Docker Store and Docker Cloud are now part of Docker Hub, providing a single experience for finding, storing and sharing container images. This means that:

  • Docker Certified and Verified Publisher Images are now available for discovery and download on Docker Hub
  • Docker Hub has a new user experience

   

  Millions of individual users and more than a hundred thousand organizations use Docker Hub, Store and Cloud for their container content needs. We’ve designed this Docker Hub update to bring together the features that users of each product know and love the most, while addressing known Docker Hub requests around ease of use, repository and team management.

  Here’s what’s new:

  Repositories

  • View recently pushed tags and automated builds on your repository page
  • Pagination added to repository tags
  • Improved repository filtering when logged in on the Docker Hub home page

  Organizations and Teams

  • As an organization Owner, see team permissions across all of your repositories at a glance.
  • Add existing Docker Hub users to a team via their email (if you don’t remember their of Docker ID)

  New Automated Builds

  • Speed up builds using Build Caching
  • Add environment variables and run tests in your builds
  • Add automated builds to existing repositories

  Note: For Organizations, GitHub & BitBucket account credentials will need to be re-linked to your organization to leverage the new automated builds. Existing Automated Builds will be migrated to this new system over the next few months. Learn more

   

  Improved Container Image Search

  • Filter by Official, Verified Publisher and Certified images, guaranteeing a level of quality in the Docker images listed by your search query
  • Filter by categories to quickly drill down to the type of image you’re looking for

   

  Existing URLs will continue to work, and you’ll automatically be redirected where appropriate. No need to update any bookmarks.

  Verified Publisher Images and Plugins

  Verified Publisher Images are now available on Docker Hub. Similar to Official Images, these images have been vetted by Docker. While Docker maintains the Official Images library, Verified Publisher and Certified Images are provided by our third-party software vendors. Interested vendors can sign up at https://goto.docker.com/Partner-Program-Technology.html.

  Certified Images and Plugins

  Certified Images are also now available on Docker Hub. Certified Images are a special category of Verified Publisher images that pass additional Docker quality, best practice, and support requirements.

  • Tested and supported on Docker Enterprise platform by verified publishers
  • Adhere to Docker’s container best practices
  • Pass a functional API test suite
  • Complete a vulnerability scanning assessment
  • Provided by partners with a collaborative support relationship
  • Display a unique quality mark “Docker Certified”

  

  Let us know what you think

  We’ll be rolling out the new Docker Hub to users over time at https://hub.docker.com.

  Have feedback on these updates? We’d love to hear from you. Let us know in this short survey.

   

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  Top 5 Blog Post of 2018: Play with Kubernetes
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  All this week, we have been bringing you the top 5 blog posts of 2018. Now for #3 on top 5 list – our blog post on Play with Kubernetes. Following the success of Play with Docker, earlier this year, we gave you the ability to learn Kubernetes from the convenience of our training site. Continue reading to learn more…

   

  Every month for the last year, thousands of people have used Play with Docker and the accompanying hands-on Play with Docker Classroom training site. These sites allow you to use and learn Docker entirely within your own browser, without installing anything. Last summer, we quietly launched the companion site Play with Kubernetes, to give people a full command line while learning Kubernetes on the command line. And today we’re launching a new Kubernetes training site, the Play with Kubernetes Classroom.

  The Play with Kubernetes Classroom is a workshop environment just like the Play with Docker Classroom. We currently have an extensive Kubernetes workshop originally based on Jérôme Petazzoni’s Container Training Kubernetes workshop. But instead of doing it all locally or setting up VMs in the cloud, you can now run through the workshop entirely in the browser.

  

  Like the Play with Docker Classroom, we’ll be curating contributions of additional labs from the community. So give Kubernetes in your browser a try, and then come on over to the Play with Kubernetes repository to share your own tutorials with the community.

  • Check out the Play with Kubernetes Classroom
  • Try Kubernetes in Docker Enterprise Edition

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  Top 5 Blog Post of 2018: Docker Enterprise 2.0 with Kubernetes
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  Day 2 of our top blog posts of 2018 and coming in at Number 4 is the launch of Docker Enterprise 2.0 (formerly Docker Enterprise Edition). Docker’s industry-leading container platform is the only platform that simplifies Kubernetes and manages and secures applications on Kubernetes in multi-Linux, multi-OS and multi-cloud customer environments. To learn more about our Docker Enterprise, read on…

   

   

  We are excited to announce Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – a significant leap forward in our enterprise-ready container platform. Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 is the only platform that manages and secures applications on Kubernetes in multi-Linux, multi-OS and multi-cloud customer environments. As a complete platform that integrates and scales with your organization, Docker EE 2.0 gives you the most flexibility and choice over the types of applications supported, orchestrators used, and where it’s deployed. It also enables organizations to operationalize Kubernetes more rapidly with streamlined workflows and helps you deliver safer applications through integrated security solutions. In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the key new capabilities of Docker EE 2.0.

  Eliminate Your Fear of Lock-in

  As containerization becomes core to your IT strategy, the importance of having a platform that supports choice becomes even more important. Being able to address a broad set of applications across multiple lines of business, built on different technology stacks and deployed to different infrastructures means that you have the flexibility needed to make changes as business requirements evolve. In Docker EE 2.0 we are expanding our customers’ choices in a few ways:

  • Multi-Linux, Multi-OS, Multi-Cloud – Most enterprise organizations have a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy and a mix of Windows and Linux in their environment. Docker EE is the only solution that is certified across multiple Linux distributions, Windows Server, and multiple public clouds, enabling you to support the broadest set of applications to be containerized and freedom to deploy it wherever you need.
  • Choice of Swarm or Kubernetes – Both orchestrators operate interchangeably in the same cluster meaning IT can build an environment that allows developers to choose how they want to have applications deployed at runtime. Teams can deploy applications to Swarm today and migrate these same applications to Kubernetes using the same Compose file. Applications deployed by either orchestrator can be managed through the same control plane, allowing you to scale more efficiently.

  

  Docker EE Dashboard with containers deployed with both Swarm and Kubernetes

  

  Deploying to Kubernetes via the admin UI

  

  Manage via native Kubernetes CLI commands

  Gain Operational Agility

  Docker is well-known for democratizing containers for developers everywhere. In a similar manner, Docker Enterprise Edition is focused on making the management of a container environment very intuitive and easy for infrastructure and operations teams. This focus on the operational experience carries over to managing Kubernetes. With Docker EE 2.0, you get simplified workflows for the day-to-day management of a Kubernetes environment while still having access to native Kubernetes APIs, CLIs, and interfaces.
  

  • Simplified cluster management tasks -Docker EE 2.0 delivers easy-to-use workflows for the basic configuration and management of a container environment, including:
    • Single line commands to add new nodes to a cluster
    • One-click high availability of the management plane
    • Easy access to consoles and logs
    • Secure default configurations

     

  • Secure application zones – One way that Docker helps you scale is with efficient  multi-tenancy that doesn’t require building new clusters. By integrating with your corporate LDAP and Active Directory systems and setting resource access policies, you can get both logical and physical separation for different teams within the same cluster. For a Kubernetes deployment, this is a simple way to align Namespaces and nodes.

  • Enhanced Layer 7 Routing for Swarm – This release of Docker EE 2.0 also includes new enhancements for Layer 7 routing and load balancing. Based on the new Interlock 2.0 architecture which provides a highly scalable and highly available routing solution for Swarm, you can learn more about these enhancements here.
  • Kubernetes conformance – The streamlined operational workflows for managing Kubernetes are abstractions that run atop a full-featured and CNCF-conformant Kubernetes stack.  All core Kubernetes components and their native APIs, CLIs and interfaces are available to advanced users seeking to fine tune and troubleshoot the orchestrator.

  Build a Secure, Global Supply Chain

  Containers provide improved security through greater isolation and smaller attack surfaces, but delivering safer applications also requires looking at how these applications were created. Organizations need to know where the applications came from, who has had access to them, if they contain known vulnerabilities and if it’s approved for production. Docker EE 2.0 is the only solution that delivers a policy-based secure supply chain that is designed to give you governance and oversight over the entire container lifecycle without slowing you down.

  • Secure supply chain for Swarm and Kubernetes – With Docker EE 2.0, you can set policies around image promotions to automate the process of moving an application through test, QA, staging, and production. For example, you can set a policy around image vulnerability scanning results that only promotes clean images to production repositories. Additionally with Docker EE 2.0, administrators can enforce rules around which applications are allowed to be deployed. Only images that have been signed off by the right tools or teams will be allowed to run in production. These are automated processes that enforce governance without adding any manual bottlenecks to the delivery process. Learn more about these capabilities in Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series.

  • Secure supply chain for globally distributed organizations – Many Docker EE customers are multinational corporations with offices and data centers located around the world. With Docker EE 2.0 we are introducing a number of features that allow these global organizations to maintain a secure and globally-consistent supply chain.
    • Centralized Image Repository – Some organizations want to maintain one source of truth for all applications. They want a centralized private image repository for their global organizations. With Docker EE 2.0, you can connect multiple EE clusters to a single, common private registry with a common set of security policies built in.
    • Remote Office Access – Many organizations have development teams that are not in the same location as the registry. To ensure that these developers can quickly download images from their location, Docker EE 2.0 includes an Image Caching capability to create local caches of the repository content. Caching extends the secure access controls and digital signatures to these remote offices to ensure no breaks in the supply chain.
    • Multi-site Availability and Consistency – Alternatively, some organizations wish to have separate registries for different office locations – possibly one for North America, one for Europe, one for Asia. But they also want to make sure that they are using common images. With the new Image Mirroring capability, organizations can set policies that “push” and “pull” images from one registry to another. This also means that if a certain region goes down, copies of the same images are available in the other registries.

  How to Get Started

  Docker EE 2.0 is a major milestone for enterprise container platforms. Designed to give you the broadest choice around orchestrators, application types, operating systems, and clouds and supporting the requirements of global organizations, Docker EE 2.0 is the most advanced enterprise-ready container platform in the market and it’s available to you today!

  To learn more about this release:

  • Register for our upcoming Virtual Event featuring Docker Chief Product Officer, Scott Johnston, and Sr. Director of Product Management, Banjot Chanana, to hear more about how our enterprise customers are leveraging Docker EE, see demos of EE 2.0 and learn how Docker can help you on your containerization journey.
  • Try it for yourself in our free, hosted trial. Explore the advanced capabilities described in this blog in just 30 minutes.
  • Read more about Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 or access the documentation.
  • Register for DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco (June 12-15) to hear from Docker experts and customers about their containerization journey.

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  Top 5 Post: Improved Docker Container Integration with Java 10
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  As 2018 comes to a close, we looked back at the top five blogs that were most popular with our readers. For those of you that had difficulties with memory and CPU sizing/usage when running Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a container, we are kicking off the week with a blog that explains how to get improved Docker container integration with Java 10 in Docker Desktop ( Mac or Windows) and Docker Enterprise environments.

  

  Many applications that run in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), including data services such as Apache Spark and Kafka and traditional enterprise applications, are run in containers. Until recently, running the JVM in a container presented problems with memory and cpu sizing and usage that led to performance loss. This was because Java didn’t recognize that it was running in a container. With the release of Java 10, the JVM now recognizes constraints set by container control groups (cgroups). Both memory and cpu constraints can be used manage Java applications directly in containers, these include:

  • adhering to memory limits set in the container
  • setting available cpus in the container
  • setting cpu constraints in the container

  Java 10 improvements are realized in both Docker Desktop ( Mac or Windows) and Docker Enterprise environments.

  Container Memory Limits

  Until Java 9 the JVM did not recognize memory or cpu limits set by the container using flags. In Java 10, memory limits are automatically recognized and enforced.

  Java defines a server class machine as having 2 CPUs and 2GB of memory and the default heap size is ¼ of the physical memory. For example, a Docker Enterprise Edition installation has 2GB of memory and 4 CPUs. Compare the difference between containers running Java 8 and Java 10. First, Java 8:

  docker container run -it -m512 --entrypoint bash openjdk:latest
  
  $ docker-java-home/bin/java -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version | grep MaxHeapSize
      uintx MaxHeapSize                              := 524288000                          {product}
  openjdk version "1.8.0_162"
  

  The max heap size is 512M or ¼ of the 2GB set by the Docker EE installation instead of the limit set on the container to 512M. In comparison, running the same commands on Java 10 shows that the memory limit set in the container is fairly close to the expected 128M:

  docker container run -it -m512M --entrypoint bash openjdk:10-jdk
  
  $ docker-java-home/bin/java -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version | grep MaxHeapSize
     size_t MaxHeapSize                              = 134217728                                {product} {ergonomic}
  openjdk version "10" 2018-03-20
  

  Setting Available CPUs

  By default, each container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles is unlimited. Various constraints can be set to limit a given container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles. Java 10 recognizes these limits:

  docker container run -it --cpus 2 openjdk:10-jdk
  jshell> Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()
  $1 ==> 2
  

  All CPUs allocated to Docker EE get the same proportion of CPU cycles. The proportion can be modified by changing the container’s CPU share weighting relative to the weighting of all other running containers. The  proportion will only apply when CPU-intensive processes are running. When tasks in one container are idle, other containers can use the leftover CPU time. The actual amount of CPU time will vary depending on the number of containers running on the system. These can be set in Java 10:

  docker container run -it --cpu-shares 2048 openjdk:10-jdk
  jshell> Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()
  $1 ==> 2
  

  The cpuset constraint sets which CPUs allow execution in Java 10.

  docker run -it --cpuset-cpus="1,2,3" openjdk:10-jdk
  jshell> Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()
  $1 ==> 3
  

  Allocating memory and CPU

  With Java 10, container settings can be used to estimate the allocation of memory and CPUs needed to deploy an application. Let’s assume that the memory heap and CPU requirements for each process running in a container has already been determined and JAVA_OPTS set. For example, if you have an application distributed across 10 nodes; five nodes require 512Mb of memory with 1024 CPU-shares each and another five nodes require 256Mb with 512 CPU-shares each. Note that 1 CPU share proportion is represented by 1024.

  For memory, the application would need 5Gb allocated at minimum.

  512Mb x 5 = 2.56 Gb

  256Mb x 5 = 1.28 Gb

  The application would require 8 CPUs to run efficiently.

  1024 x 5 = 5 CPUs

  512 x 5 = 3 CPUs

  Best practice suggests profiling the application to determine the memory and CPU allocations for each process running in the JVM. However, Java 10 removes the guesswork when sizing containers to prevent out of memory errors in Java applications as well allocating sufficient CPU to process work loads.

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  Docker Certified Containers From IBM
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  The Docker Certified Technology Program is designed for ecosystem partners and customers to recognize containers and plugins that excel in quality, collaborative support and compliance. Docker Certification gives enterprises an easy way to run trusted software and components in containers on Docker Enterprise with support from both Docker and the publisher.   As cloud computing continues to transform every business and industry, developers at global enterprises and emerging startups alike are increasingly leveraging container technologies to accelerate how they build modern web, mobile and IoT applications.   IBM has achieved certification of its flagship Db2 database, Websphere-Liberty middleware server and Security Access Manager products now available on Docker Hub. These Certified Containers enable developers to accelerate building cloud-native applications for the Docker Enterprise platform.  Developers can deploy these solutions from IBM to any on-premises infrastructure or public cloud.  They are Continue reading...

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  Speak at DockerCon San Francisco 2019 – Call for Papers is Open
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  Whether you missed DockerCon EU in Barcelona, or you already miss the fun, connections and learning you experienced at DockerCon – you won’t have to wait long for the next one. DockerCon returns to San Francisco on April 29 and extends through May 2, 2019 and the Call for Papers is now open. We are accepting talk submissions through January 18th at 11:59 PST.  

  Submit a Talk

  Attending DockerCon is an awesome experience, but so is speaking at DockerCon – it’s a great way to get to know the community, share ideas and collaborate. Don’t be nervous about proposing your idea – no topic is too small or too big. And for some speakers, DockerCon is their first time speaking publicly. Don’t be intimidated, DockerCon attendees are all looking to level up their skills, connect with fellow container fans and go home inspired to implement new containerization initiatives. Here are some suggested topics from the conference committee:

  • “How To” type sessions for developers or IT teams
  • Case Studies
  • Technical deep dives into container and distributed systems related components
  • Cool New Apps built with Docker containers
  • The craziest thing you have containerized
  • Wild Card – anything and everything!
  • The impact of change – both for organizations and ourselves as individuals and communities.
  • Inspirational stories

  Note that our attendees expect practical guidance so vendor sales pitches will not be accepted.

  Accepted speakers receive a complimentary conference pass, speakers gift and participate in a networking reception. Additionally, they receive help preparing their session, access to an online recording of their talk and the opportunity to share their experience with the broader Docker community.

   

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  Desigual Transforms the In-Store Customer Experience with Docker Enterprise
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  At DockerCon Barcelona, we awarded Desigual with the first ever Rising Star Docker Customer Innovation Award. The Desigual team earned the award by building a brand new in-store shopping assistant application in just 5 months thanks to Docker Enterprise. The digital shopping assistant is already deployed at over 100 stores, and is being rolled out to all of Desigual’s 500-plus clothing stores worldwide in the coming months.

  In this 2 minute video, Desigual gives the highlights of their story:

  https://youtu.be/BKbD-gW6yI0

  The Desigual team analyzed existing sales data and found that of lost in-store sales, 60 percent were because a particular size was out of stock, and 40 percent were because a product wasn’t available in the catalog.

  They wanted to create a customer-first shopping experience that would stand out among retail clothing brands and help store associates recommend alternatives to customers. To do that, they needed to tie multiple elements together: Store point-of-sale (POS), the online catalog, mobile capability, and personal attention through the shopper profile.

  Mathias Kriegel, IT Ops Lead and Cloud Architect, and Joan Anton Sances, Software Architect, discussed the project and why they selected Docker Enterprise in their presentation at DockerCon Barcelona 2018.

  They selected Docker Enterprise because it gives them enterprise-grade support and has let them create a secure and reliable software pipeline. It also met their need for Swarm and Kubernetes support, along with multi-platform support since the application has both .NET and Java components.

  Desigual has shifted software development to a DevOps mentality and can now roll out updates or new software much faster and more reliably, even with a sophisticated technology stack that includes TIBCO enterprise software, Java, .NET and Android mobile components.

  While all of Docker’s customers are starting to change how their software development and deployment process works, Desigual’s innovative thinking and customer focus stands out. Congratulations to the Desigual team for winning our 2018 Rising Star Customer Innovation Award!

  Check this out:

  • Watch a 2 minute video on how Desigual uses Docker Enterprise
  • Learn more about Docker Enterprise

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  KubeCon NA 2018 Wrap Up: Docker and the Kubernetes Community
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  Right on the heels of DockerCon Europe, the Docker team was excited to be a part of KubeCon in Seattle last week for great conversations and collaboration with the Kubernetes community. In addition to our commitment to delivering a simple, integrated experience with Kubernetes in our Docker Desktop and Docker Enterprise products, we’re also excited by our work with the community at the very foundation of Kubernetes with projects like containerd and Notary/TUF and to talk container standards with the members of the Open Container Initiative (OCI). KubeCon is an opportunity for project maintainers to explain the status and roadmap of projects, but also to meet face to face and collaborate with contributors to determine what is next for cloud native applications.

  Giving Back to the Kubernetes Community

  The Docker and Kubernetes communities have been working together closely since Kubernetes was announced at DockerCon 2014. In line with our commitment to continue to make containerization technology like Kubernetes easier to use: a few weeks ago we open sourced Docker Compose on Kubernetes, a project that provides a simple way to define cloud native applications with a higher-level abstraction, the Docker Compose file. Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications is already used by millions of Docker users.

  Docker is also working on solutions that address challenges that the broader Kubernetes community is facing as more applications embrace cloud-native design and more applications are distributed applications. As announced during DockerCon Europe, Docker and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification – an open source, cloud-agnostic specification for packaging and running distributed applications. With CNAB, organizations can package Helm charts, Kubernetes YAML files and Docker Compose files in a single format that is easily shareable and distributed in Docker Hub and Docker Trusted Registry. The format also extends to things like Terraform and Ansible scripts and any number of other configuration and automation formats. Here is a video of CNAB in action.

  In one of these very productive gatherings of maintainers at KubeCon, CNAB team members from Microsoft and Docker joined the OCI maintainer meeting to discuss CNAB joining OCI.

  #KubeCon is not only about talks, but also a lot about face to face meetings between engineers: here @OCI_ORG team discussing @cnab_spec pic.twitter.com/3WqSjOrG1a

  — chanezon (@chanezon) December 13, 2018

  At the Heart of Kubernetes: containerd and Notary

  Containerd

  It’s been about 2 years since containerd was donated to CNCF and the project has had tremendous momentum in that short time. Today, containerd 1.2 is the industry-standard container runtime that can be used with different technologies including gVisor, Kata containers, Firecracker and Balena, and is extensible to various platforms through it’s plugin model. Containerd is being widely adopted by the major cloud platforms including Alibaba, AWS, Azure, GKE and IBM Cloud. We’re excited by the maturity and direction we’re headed in and looking forward to graduation of containerd within CNCF.

  You can watch the Intro and Deep Dive sessions on containerd here:

  • Intro to containerd
  • Deep Dive on containerd

  One thing I love about KubeCon is the impromptu maintainer meetings after talks: after the Intro to containerd talk, we all went to AWS office with @containerd and Firecracker maintainers from @Docker @awscloud @Microsoft @GCPcloud @alibaba_cloud @IBM to talk about Firecracker containerd integration. The AWS team demoed their firecracker-containerd proof of concept to check that their architecture was sound.

  One thing I love about #KubeCon is impromptu maintainer meetings after talks: here at Amazon with @containerd & Firecracker maintainers from @Docker @awscloud @Microsoft @GCPcloud @alibaba_cloud @IBM to talk about Firecracker containerd integrationhttps://t.co/rlvAYOxBox pic.twitter.com/pSuDPWv4Ss

  — chanezon (@chanezon) December 12, 2018

  Notary with TUF

  Docker has implemented The Update Framework (TUF) in Notary as a way to protect and sign your container images and secure your environment with Docker Hub or Docker Trusted Registry. Notary is also a project within CNCF with maintainers from many different companies and the framework can be extended to other use cases.

  Yesterday in @CloudNativeFdn board meeting one topic that came up was that security should be an important focus for cncf: good example today #KubeCon @justincormack & Pr Cappos from @nyutandon present TUF and Notary. pic.twitter.com/O2HT3CWHuY

  — chanezon (@chanezon) December 11, 2018

  You can watch the session on Notary here:

  • Intro to TUF / Notary

  Docker and Kubernetes: The Road Ahead

  Docker is driving Kubernetes forward from two ends. We continue to invest and collaborate from the foundational side through projects like containerd and Notary and standards like OCI and CNAB. And we continue to drive adoption in the enterprise through easy-to-use tools like Docker Desktop and Docker Enterprise which package conformant Kubernetes distributions with Docker tooling. Docker will continue to collaborate with the Kubernetes community with a focus on making Kubernetes easier to use and accessible to a larger set of users.

  Here are other sessions from KubeCon Seattle 2018 from the Docker team:

  • Building Container Images on Your Kubernetes Cluster with Knative Build with Gareth Rushgrove
  • How to Choose a Kubernetes Runtime with Justin Cormack
  • How Standards, Specifications and Runtimes Make for Better Containers with Patrick Chanezon (Docker), Chris Aniszczyk (The Linux Foundation/CNCF), Jeffrey Borek (IBM) and Rithu Leena John (CoreOS/Red Hat)

  Had a great time presenting with these fine gentlemen @jeffborek @chanezon @cra at #kubecon2018! pic.twitter.com/cqdS36wkD0

  — Rithu Leena John (@rithu_john) December 14, 2018

  • Securing Application Telemetry & Tracing with SPIFFE and Envoy with Sabree Blackmon

  To learn more:

  • Docker Desktop is the easiest way to run Kubernetes on your laptop
  • Docker Enterprise is the easiest way to run Kubernetes in the Enterprise.

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  Introducing the New Docker Hub
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  Today, we’re excited to announce that Docker Store and Docker Cloud are now part of Docker Hub, providing a single experience for finding, storing and sharing container images. This means that:

  • Docker Certified and Verified Publisher Images are now available for discovery and download on Docker Hub
  • Docker Hub has a new user experience

   

  Millions of individual users and more than a hundred thousand organizations use Docker Hub, Store and Cloud for their container content needs. We’ve designed this Docker Hub update to bring together the features that users of each product know and love the most, while addressing known Docker Hub requests around ease of use, repository and team management.

  Here’s what’s new:

  Repositories

  • View recently pushed tags and automated builds on your repository page
  • Pagination added to repository tags
  • Improved repository filtering when logged in on the Docker Hub home page

  Organizations and Teams

  • As an organization Owner, see team permissions across all of your repositories at a glance.
  • Add existing Docker Hub users to a team via their email (if you don’t remember their of Docker ID)

  New Automated Builds

  • Speed up builds using Build Caching
  • Add environment variables and run tests in your builds
  • Add automated builds to existing repositories

  Note: For Organizations, GitHub & BitBucket account credentials will need to be re-linked to your organization to leverage the new automated builds. Existing Automated Builds will be migrated to this new system over the next few months. Learn more

   

  Improved Container Image Search

  • Filter by Official, Publisher and Certified images, guaranteeing a level of quality in the Docker images listed by your search query
  • Filter by categories to quickly drill down to the type of image you’re looking for

   

  Existing URLs will continue to work, and you’ll automatically be redirected where appropriate. No need to update any bookmarks.

  Verified Publisher Images and Plugins

  Verified Publisher Images are now available on Docker Hub. Similar to Official Images, these images have been vetted by Docker. While Docker maintains the Official Images library, Verified Publisher Images are provided by our third-party software vendors.

  Verified Publisher Images and Plugins:

  • Are tested and supported on Docker Enterprise platform by verified publishers
  • Adhere to Docker’s container best practices
  • Pass a functional API test suite
  • Complete a vulnerability scanning assessment
  • Are provided by partners with a collaborative support relationship

  

  Let us know what you think

  We’ll be rolling out the new Docker Hub to users over time at https://hub.docker.com.

  Have feedback on these updates? We’d love to hear from you. Let us know in this short survey.

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  Announcing Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB)
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  As more organizations pursue cloud-native applications and infrastructures for creating modern software environments, it has become clear that there is no single solution in the market for defining and packaging these multi-service, multi-format distributed applications. Real-world applications can now span on-premises infrastructure and cloud-based services, requiring multiple tools like Terraform for the infrastructure, Helm charts and Docker Compose files for the applications, and CloudFormation or ARM templates for the cloud-services. Each of these need to be managed separately.

   

  

   

  To address this problem, Microsoft in collaboration with Docker are announcing Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) – an open source, cloud-agnostic specification for packaging and running distributed applications. CNAB unifies the management of multi-service, distributed applications across different toolchains into a single all-in-one packaging format.The CNAB specification lets you define resources that can be deployed to any combination of runtime environments and tooling including Docker Engine, Kubernetes, Helm, automation tools and cloud services.

  Docker is the first to implement CNAB for containerized applications and will be expanding it across the Docker platform to support new application development, deployment and lifecycle management. Initially CNAB support will be released as part of our docker-app experimental tool for building, packaging and managing cloud-native applications. Docker lets you package CNAB bundles as Docker images, so you can distribute and share through Docker registry tools including Docker Hub and Docker Trusted Registry. Additionally, Docker will enable organizations to deploy and manage CNAB-based applications in Docker Enterprise in the upcoming months.

  The draft specification is available at cnab.io and we’re actively looking for contributors to the spec itself and people interested in building tools around the specification. Docker will be contributing to the CNAB specification.

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  Simplifying Kubernetes with Docker Compose and Friends
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  Today we’re happy to announce we’re open sourcing our support for using Docker Compose on Kubernetes. We’ve had this capability in Docker Enterprise for a little while but as of today you will be able to use this on any Kubernetes cluster you choose.

  

  Why do I need Compose if I already have Kubernetes?

  The Kubernetes API is really quite large. There are more than 50 first-class objects in the latest release, from Pods and Deployments to ValidatingWebhookConfiguration and ResourceQuota. This can lead to a verbosity in configuration, which then needs to be managed by you, the developer. Let’s look at a concrete example of that.

  The Sock Shop is the canonical example of a microservices application. It consists of multiple services using different technologies and backends, all packaged up as Docker images. It also provides example configurations using different tools, including both Compose and raw Kubernetes configuration. Let’s have a look at the relative sizes of those configurations:

  $ git clone https://github.com/microservices-demo/microservices-demo.git
  $ cd deployment/kubernetes/manifests
  $ (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -File | Get-Content | Measure-Object -line).Lines
  908
  $ cd ../../docker-compose
  $ (Get-Content docker-compose.yml | Measure-Object -line).Lines
  174

  Describing the exact same multi-service application using just the raw Kubernetes objects takes more than 5 times the amount of configuration than with Compose. That’s not just an upfront cost to author – it’s also an ongoing cost to maintain. The Kubernetes API is amazingly general purpose – it exposes low-level primitives for building the full range of distributed systems. Compose meanwhile isn’t an API but a high-level tool focused on developer productivity. That’s why combining them together makes sense. For the common case of a set of interconnected web services, Compose provides an abstraction that simplifies Kubernetes configuration. For everything else you can still drop down to the raw Kubernetes API primitives. Let’s see all that in action.

  First we need to install the Compose on Kubernetes controller into your Kubernetes cluster. This controller uses the standard Kubernetes extension points to introduce the `Stack` to the Kubernetes API. You can use any Kubernetes cluster you like, but if you don’t already have one available then remember that Docker Desktop comes with Kubernetes and the Compose controller built-in, and enabling it is as simple as ticking a box in the settings.

  To install the controller manually on any Kubernetes cluster, see the full documentation for the current installation instructions.

  Next let’s write a simple Compose file:

  version: "3.7"
  services:
    web:
      image: dockerdemos/lab-web
      ports:
       - "33000:80"
    words:
      image: dockerdemos/lab-words
      deploy:
        replicas: 3
        endpoint_mode: dnsrr
    db:
      image: dockerdemos/lab-db

  We’ll then use the docker client to deploy this to a Kubernetes cluster running the controller:

  $ docker stack deploy --orchestrator=kubernetes -c docker-compose.yml words
  Waiting for the stack to be stable and running...
  db: Ready       [pod status: 1/1 ready, 0/1 pending, 0/1 failed]
  web: Ready      [pod status: 1/1 ready, 0/1 pending, 0/1 failed]
  words: Ready    [pod status: 1/3 ready, 2/3 pending, 0/3 failed]
  Stack words is stable and running

  We can then interact with those objects via the Kubernetes API. Here you can see we’ve created the lower-level objects like Services, Pods, Deployments and ReplicaSets automatically:

  $ kubectl get all
  NAME                       READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
  pod/db-85849797f6-bhpm8    1/1       Running   0          57s
  pod/web-7974f485b7-j7nvt   1/1       Running   0          57s
  pod/words-8fd6c974-44r4s   1/1       Running   0          57s
  pod/words-8fd6c974-7c59p   1/1       Running   0          57s
  pod/words-8fd6c974-zclh5   1/1       Running   0          57s
  
  NAME                    TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)        AGE
  service/db              ClusterIP      None            <none>        55555/TCP      57s
  service/kubernetes      ClusterIP      10.96.0.1       <none>        443/TCP        4d
  service/web             ClusterIP      None            <none>        55555/TCP      57s
  service/web-published   LoadBalancer   10.102.236.49   localhost     33000:31910/TCP   57s
  service/words           ClusterIP      None            <none>        55555/TCP      57s
  
  NAME                    DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
  deployment.apps/db      1         1         1            1           57s
  deployment.apps/web     1         1         1            1           57s
  deployment.apps/words   3         3         3            3           57s
  
  NAME                             DESIRED   CURRENT   READY     AGE
  replicaset.apps/db-85849797f6    1         1         1         57s
  replicaset.apps/web-7974f485b7   1         1         1         57s
  replicaset.apps/words-8fd6c974   3         3         3         57s

  It’s important to note that this isn’t a one-time conversion. The Compose on Kubernetes API Server introduces the Stack resource to the Kubernetes API. So we can query and manage everything at the same level of abstraction as we’re building the application. That makes delving into the details above useful for understanding how things work, or debugging issues, but not required most of the time:

  $ kubectl get stack
  NAME      STATUS      PUBLISHED PORTS   PODS     AGE      
  words     Running     33000             5/5      4m

  Integration with other Kubernetes tools

  Because Stack is now a native Kubernetes object, you can work with it using other Kubernetes tools. As an example, save the as `stack.yaml`:

  kind: Stack
  apiVersion: compose.docker.com/v1beta2
  metadata:
   name: hello
  spec:
   services:
   - name: hello
     image: garethr/skaffold-example
     ports:
     - mode: ingress
       target: 5678
       published: 5678
       protocol: tcp

  You can use a tool like Skaffold to have the image automatically rebuild and the Stack automatically redeployed whenever you change any of the details of your application. This makes for a great local inner-loop development experience. The following `skaffold.yaml` configuration file is all you need.

  apiVersion: skaffold/v1alpha5
  kind: Config
  build:
   tagPolicy:
     sha256: {}
   artifacts:
   - image: garethr/skaffold-example
   local:
     useBuildkit: true
  deploy:
   kubectl:
     manifests:
       - stack.yaml

  The future

  We already have some thoughts about a Helm plugin to make describing your application with Compose and deploying with Helm as easy as possible. We have lots of other ideas for helping to simplify the developer experience of working with Kubernetes too, without losing any of the power of the platform. We also want to work with the wider Cloud Native community, so if you have ideas and suggestions please let us know.

  Kubernetes is designed to be extended, and we hope you like what we’ve been able to release today. If you’re one of the millions of Compose users you can now more easily move to and manage your applications on Kubernetes. If you’re a Kubernetes user struggling with too much low-level configuration then give Compose a try. Let us know in the comments what you think, and head over to GitHub to try things out and even open your first PR:

  • Compose on Kubernetes controller

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  Introducing Docker Desktop Enterprise
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  Nearly 1.4 million developers use Docker Desktop every single day because it is the simplest and easiest way for container-based development. Docker Desktop provides the Docker Engine with Swarm and Kubernetes orchestrators right on the desktop, all from a single install. While this is great for an individual user, in enterprise environments administrators often want to automate the Docker Desktop installation and ensure everyone on the development team has the same configuration following enterprise requirements and creating applications based on architectural standards.

   

  

   

  Docker Desktop Enterprise is a new desktop offering that is the easiest, fastest and most secure way to create and deliver production-ready containerized applications. Developers can work with frameworks and languages of their choice, while IT can securely configure, deploy and manage development environments that align to corporate standards and practices. This enables organizations to rapidly deliver containerized applications from development to production.

  Enterprise Manageability That Helps Accelerate Time-to-Production

  Docker Desktop Enterprise provides a secure way to configure, deploy and manage developer environments while enforcing safe development standards that align to corporate policies and practices. IT teams and application architects can present developers with application templates designed specifically for their team, to bootstrap and standardize the development process and provide a consistent environment all the way to production.

  Key new features for IT:

  • Packaged as standard MSI (Win) and PKG (Mac) distribution files that work with existing endpoint management tools with lockable settings via policy files
  • Present developers with customized and approved application templates, ready for coding

  Enterprise Deployment & Configuration Packaging

  Docker Desktop Enterprise enables IT desktop admins to deploy and manage Docker Desktop Enterprise across distributed developer teams with their preferred endpoint management tools using standard MSI and PKG files. No manual intervention or extra configuration from developers is required and desktop administrators can enable or disable particular settings within Docker Desktop Enterprise to meet corporate standards and provide the best developer experience.

  Application Templates

  

  Application architects can provide developers with trusted, customized application templates through the Application Designer interface in Docker Desktop Enterprise, helping to improve reliability and security by ensuring developers start from approved designs. Together, application teams and IT can implement consistent security and development practices across the entire software supply chain, from the developers’ desktops all the way to production.

  Increase Developer Productivity and Ship Production-ready Containerized Applications

  For developers, Docker Desktop Enterprise is the easiest and fastest way to build production-ready containerized applications working with frameworks and languages of choice and targeting every platform. Developers can rapidly innovate by leveraging company-provided application templates that instantly replicate production-approved application configurations on the local desktop.

  Key new features for developers:

  • Configurable version packs instantly replicate production environment configurations on the local desktop
  • Application Designer interface allows for template-based workflows for creating containerized applications – no Docker CLI commands are required to get started

  Configurable Version Packs

  

  Docker Desktop has Docker Engine and Kubernetes built-in and with the addition of swappable version packs you can now synchronize your desktop development environment with the same Docker API and Kubernetes versions that are used in production with Docker Enterprise. You get the assurance that your application will not break due to incompatible API calls, and if you have multiple downstream environments running different versions of the APIs, you can quickly change your desktop configuration with the click of a button.

  Application Designer       

  

  The Application Designer is a new workflow that provides production-ready application and service templates that let you get coding quickly, with the reassurance that your application meets architectural standards. And even if you’ve never launched a container before, the Application Designer interface provides the foundational container artifacts and your organization’s skeleton code, getting you started with containers in minutes. Plus, Docker Desktop Enterprise integrates with your choice of development tools, whether you prefer an IDE or a text editor and command line interfaces.

   

  The Docker Desktop Products

  Docker Desktop Enterprise is a new addition to our desktop product portfolio which currently includes the free Docker Desktop Community products for MacOS and Windows. Docker Desktop is the simplest way to get started with container-based development on both Windows 10 and macOS with a set of features now available for the enterprise:

  

   

  To learn more about Docker Desktop Enterprise:

  • Sign up to learn more about Docker Desktop Enterprise as we approach general availability
  • Watch the livestreams of the DockerCon EU keynotes, Tuesday from 09:00 – 11:00 CET and Wednesday from 9:30am-11:00am CET. (Replays will also be available)
  • Download Docker Desktop Community and build your first containerized application in minutes [ Windows | mac OS ]

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  Announcing the Docker Customer Innovation Awards
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  We are excited to announce the first annual Docker Customer Innovation Award winners at DockerCon Barcelona today! We launched the awards this year to recognize customers who stand out in their adoption of Docker Enterprise platform to drive transformation within IT and their business.

  38 companies were nominated, all of whom have spoken publicly about their containerization initiatives recently, or plan to soon. From looking at so many excellent nominees, we realized there were really two different stories — so we created two award categories. In each category, we have a winner and three finalists.

   

   

  Business Transformation

  Customers in this category have developed company-wide initiatives aimed at transforming IT and their business in a significant way, with Docker Enterprise as a key part if it. They typically started their journey two or more years ago and have containerized multiple applications across the organization.

  

  WINNER:

  • Societe Generale transformed how the bank develops its software by building a container platform for migrating thousands of its applications to the cloud.

   

  

  FINALISTS:

  • Bosch built a global platform that enables developers to build and deliver new software solutions and updates at digital speed.

  • Liberty Mutual consolidated infrastructure and VMs significantly, paving the way for innovation and a multi-cloud future.

  • MetLife modernized hundreds of traditional applications, driving 66 percent cost savings and creating a self-funding model to fuel change and innovation. Cut new product time to market by two-thirds.

   

  Rising Stars

  Customers in this category are early in their containerization journey and have already leveraged their first project with Docker Enterprise as a catalyst to innovate their business — often creating new applications or services.

  

  WINNER:

  • Desigual built a brand new in-store shopping experience app in less than 5 months to connect customers and associates, creating an outstanding brand and shopping experience.

  

  FINALISTS:

  • BCG leverages Docker Enterprise to develop breakthrough analytics and machine-learning solutions for clients with BCG’s Source.ai offering.

  • Citizens Bank (Franklin American) created a dedicated innovation team sparked cultural change at a traditional mortgage company, allowing it to bring new products to market in weeks or months.
  • The Dutch Ministry of Justice evaluated Docker Enterprise as a way to accelerate application development, which helped spark an effort to modernize juvenile custodian services from whiteboards and sticky notes to a mobile app.

  We want to give a big thanks to the winners and finalists, and to all of our remarkable customers have started innovation journeys with Docker.

  We’ve opened the nomination process for 2019 since we will be announcing winners at DockerCon 2019 on April 29-May 2. If you’re interested in submitting or want to nominate someone else, you can learn how here.

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  Docker at DEVIntersection 2018
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  Docker will be at DEVIntersection 2018 in Las Vegas the first week in December. DEVIntersection now in its fifth year, brings Microsoft leaders, engineers and industry experts together to educate, network, and share their expertise with developers. This year DEVIntersection will have a Developer, SQL Server and AI/Azure tracks integrated into a single event. Docker be featured at DEVIntersection via the following sessions:

  Modernizing .NET Applications with Docker on Azure

  Derrick Miller, a Docker Senior Solutions Engineer, will deliver a session focused on using containers as a modernization path for traditional applications, including how to select Windows Server 2008 applications for containerization, implementation tips, and common gotchas.

  Depend on Docker – Get It Done with Docker on Azure

  Alex Iankoulski, a Docker Captain, will highlight how how Baker Hughes, a GE Company, uses Docker to transform software development and delivery. Be inspired by the story of software professionals and scientists who were enabled by Docker to use a common language and work together to create a sophisticated platform for the Oil & Gas Industry. Attendees will see practical examples of how Docker is deployed on Azure.

  Docker for Web Developers

  Dan Wahlin, a Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, will focus on the fundamentals of Docker and update attendees about the tools that can be used to get a full dev environment up and running locally with minimal effort. Attendees will also learn how to create Docker images that can be moved between different environments.

  You can learn when the sessions are being delivered here.

  Can’t make it the conference? Learn how Docker Enterprise is helping customers reduce their hardware and software licensing costs by up to 50% and enabling them to migrate their legacy Windows applications here.

  Don’t miss #CodeParty at DevIntersection and Microsoft Connect();

  On Tuesday, Dec. 4 starting at 5:30PM PST Docker will join @Mobilize, @LEADTOOLS, @PreEmptive, @DocuSignAPI, @CData and @Twilio to kick off another hilarious and prize-filled stream of geek weirdness and trivia questions on the CodeParty twitch channel. You won’t want to miss it, because the only way to get some high-quality swag is to answer the trivia questions on the Twitch chat stream. We’ll be giving away a couple of Surface Go laptops, gift certificates to Amazon, an Xbox and a bunch of other cool stuff. Don’t miss it!

  Learn more about the partners participating together with Docker at #CodeParty:

  Mobilize.net

  Mobilize.Net’s AI-driven code migration tools reduce the cost and time to modernize valuable legacy client-server applications. Convert VB6 code to .NET or even a modern web application. Move PowerBuilder to Angular and ASP.NET Core or Java Spring. Automated migration tools cut time, cost, and risk from legacy modernization projects.

  Progress

  The creator of Telerik .NET and Kendo UI JavaScript user interface components/controls, reporting solutions and productivity tools, Progress offers all the tools developers need to build high-performance modern web, mobile, and desktop apps with outstanding UI including modern chatbot experiences.

  LEADTOOLS

  LEADTOOLS Imaging SDKs help programmers integrate A-Z imaging into their cross-platform applications with a comprehensive toolkits offer powerful features including OCR, Barcode, Forms, PDF, Document Viewing, Image Processing, DICOM, and PACS for  building an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, zero-footprint medical viewer, or audio/video media streaming server.

  PreEmptive Solutions

  PreEmptive Solutions provides quick to implement, application protection to hinder IP and data attacks and improve security related compliance. P PreEmptive’s application shielding and .NET, Xamarin, Java and Android obfuscator solutions help protect your assets now –  whether client, server, cloud or mobile app protection.

  DocuSign

  Whether you are looking for a simple eSignature integration or building a complex workflow, the DocuSign APIs and tools have you covered. Our new C# SDK includes .NET Core 2.0 support, and  a new Quick Start API code example for C#, complete with installation and demonstration video. s Open source SDKs also available for PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, and Node.js.

  CData

  CData Software is a leading provider of Drivers & Adapters for data integration offering real-time SQL-92 connectivity to more than 100+ SaaS, NoSQL, and Big Data sources, through established standards like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and ODATA. By virtualizing data access, the CData drivers insulate developers from the complexities of data integration while enabling real-time data access from major BI, ETL and reporting tools. Twilio

  Twilio powers the future of business communications. Enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API that developers can interact with to build intelligent and complex communications systems that scales with you.

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  DockerCon Hallway Track Is Back – Schedule One Today
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  The Hallway Track is coming back to DockerCon Europe in Barcelona. DockerCon Hallway Track is an innovative platform that helps you find like-minded people to meet one-on-one and schedule knowledge sharing conversations based on shared topics of interest. We’ve partnered with e180 to provide the next level of conference attendee networking. Together, we believe that some of the most valuable conversations can come from hallway encounters, and that we can unlock greatness by learning from each other. After the success at past DockerCons, we’re happy to grow this idea further in Barcelona.

  DockerCon is all about learning new things and connecting with the community. The Hallway Track will help you meet and share knowledge with Docker Staff, other attendees, Speakers, and Docker Captains through structured networking.

  To participate in Hallway Tracks:

  1. Explore the Market – where all participants post the knowledge offers of topics they are willing to share, or questions they want to brainstorm.
  2. Pick a topic from the list (and/or create your own offer or question).
  3. Schedule your Hallway Tracks and meet in person at the Hallway Track Lounge!

  If you are interested in attending DockerCon please register soon! If you are already registered and want to book your Hallway Tracks, the platform launches today – look out for the email with instructions for logging into the system.

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  Introducing Docker Engine 18.09
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  Last week, we launched Docker Enterprise 2.1 – advancing our leadership in the enterprise container platform market. That platform is built on Docker Engine 18.09 which was also released last week for both Community and Enterprise users. Docker Engine 18.09 represents a significant advancement of the world’s leading container engine, introducing new architectures and features that improve container performance and accelerate adoption for every type of Docker user –  whether you’re a developer, an IT admin, working at a startup or at a large, established company.

  Built on containerd

  Docker Engine – Community and Docker Engine – Enterprise both ship with containerd 1.2. Donated and maintained by Docker and under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), containerd is being adopted as the primary container runtime across multiple platforms and clouds, while progressing towards Graduation in CNCF.

  BuildKit Improvements

  Docker Engine 18.09 also includes the option to leverage BuildKit. This is a new Build architecture that improves performance, storage management, and extensibility while also adding some great new features:

  • Performance improvements: BuildKit includes a re-designed concurrency and caching model that makes it much faster, more precise and portable. When tested against the github.com/moby/moby Dockerfile, we saw 2x to 9.5x faster builds. This new implementation also supports these new operational models:
    • Parallel build stages
    • Skip unused stages and unused context files
    • Incremental context transfer between builds

  • Build-time secrets: Integrate secrets in your Dockerfile and pass them along in a safe way.  These secrets do not end up stored in the final image nor are they included in the build cache calculations to avoid anyone from using the cache metadata to reconstruct the secret.
  • SSH forwarding: Connect to private repositories by forwarding your existing SSH agent connection or a key to the builder instead of transferring the key data.
  • Build cache pruning and configurable garbage collection: Build cache can be managed separately from images and cleaned up with a new command ‘docker builder prune`. You can also set policies around when to clear build caches.
  • Extensibility: Create extensions for Dockerfile parsing by using the new #syntax directive:

    # syntax = registry/user/repo:tag

  New Enterprise Features

  With this architecture shift and alignment, we’ve also made it much easier to upgrade from the Community engine to the Enterprise engine with a simple license activation. For current Community engine users, that means unlocking many enterprise security features and getting access to Docker’s enterprise-class support and extended maintenance policies. Some of the Enterprise specific features include:

  • FIPS 140-2 validation: Enable FIPS mode to leverage cryptographic modules that have been validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This is important to the public sector and many regulated industries as it is referenced in FISMA, PCI, and HIPAA/HITECH among others. This is supported for both Linux and Windows Server 2016+.
  • Enforcement of signed images: By enabling engine signature verification in the Docker daemon configuration file, you can verify that the integrity of the container is not compromised from development to execution. 

  Docker Engine 18.09 is now available for both Community and Enterprise users. Next week, we’ll highlight more of the differences in the Enterprise engine and why some of our existing Community users may want to upgrade to Enterprise.

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  To learn more about Docker Engine 18.09:

  • Visit the Docker Engine website or check out the release notes
  • Download Docker Engine – Community for your preferred operating system and read more about some of the new features.
  • Register for the upcoming webinar: Building a Secure Foundation for Your Containers with Docker Engine – Enterprise

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  Docker and MuleSoft Partner to Accelerate Innovation for Enterprises
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  A convergence of forces in SaaS, IoT, cloud, and mobile have placed unprecedented requirements on businesses to accelerate innovation to meet those rapidly changing preferences. The big don’t eat the small, the fast eat the slow.

  The industry has offered several solutions to this acceleration problem – from working harder to outsourcing and devops, but none of those solutions have really offered the levels of acceleration needed. The reason: there is too much friction slowing the art of the possible.

  Docker and MuleSoft remove friction in the innovation process, from ideation all the way to deployment. MuleSoft provides a tops down architectural approach, with API-first design and implementation. The Docker approach is bottoms up from the perspective of the application workload with containerization, to both modernize traditional applications and create of new applications.  

  

  Marrying those two approaches combined with the platform, tools and methodology, enable both organizations to help your business accelerate faster than ever before. Docker and MuleSoft bridge the chasm between infrastructure and services in a way never before achieved in the industry.

  Together, Docker and MuleSoft accelerate legacy application modernization and new application delivery while reducing IT complexity and costs.

  • Modernize traditional applications quickly without code changes with the Docker Enterprise container platform methodology and tooling to containerize legacy applications. Then, you can instantly extend the business logic and data to new applications by leveraging MuleSoft API gateway and Anypoint Platform.
  • Accelerate time to market of new applications by enhancing developer productivity and collaboration and enabling greater reuse of application services. Anypoint Studio lets you define API contracts and decouple consumers and producers of microservices, so line of business developers who consume the API can start creating new experiences such as a mobile application right away with Anypoint mock service. Docker Desktop is used today by millions of developers to develop microservices using any language and any framework: microservice developers can leverage Docker Desktop to implement the APIs using the best tool for the job, and focus on implementing the business logic with a clear specification defined in Anypoint Platform, letting Anypoint Platform provide one more layer of security, observability and manageability at the API level.
  • Improve overall application security, manageability and observability by using Docker Enterprise to manage container workloads and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to run and manage the application network.
    

  

  Only Docker and MuleSoft can bring you the complete solution, tools, methodology and know-how, to execute a multi-pronged approach to transforming your business today. And we’re going to work together to make the experience even more pleasurable. There is a saying in IT that between speed, cost, and quality you have to pick two. With Docker and MuleSoft together, you can have all three.

  Additional Resources

  • Read the press release for more information.
  • Learn how companies can migrate legacy applications with Docker Enterprise.
  • Find out more about Docker Enterprise.

   

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  Introducing Docker’s Windows Server Application Migration Program
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  Last week, we announced the Docker Windows Server Application Migration Program, designed to help companies quickly and easily migrate and modernize legacy Windows Server 2008 applications while driving continuous innovation across any application, anywhere.

  We recognize that Windows Server 2008 is one of the most widely used operating systems today and the coming end-of-support in January 2020 leaves IT organizations with few viable options to cost-effectively secure their legacy applications and data. The Docker Windows Server Application Migration Program represents the best and only way to containerize and secure legacy Windows Server applications while enabling software-driven business transformation. With this new program, customers get:

  • Docker Enterprise: Leading Container Platform and only one for Windows Server applications.
    Docker Enterprise is the leading container platform in the industry– familiar to millions of developers and IT professionals. It’s also the only one that runs Windows Server applications, with support for Windows Server 2016, 1709, 1803 and soon, 2019 (in addition to multiple Linux distributions.) Organizations routinely save 50% or more through higher server consolidation and reduced hardware and licensing costs when they containerize their existing applications with Docker Enterprise.

  • Industry-proven tools & services: Easily discover, containerize, and migrate with immediate results.

    Only Docker delivers immediate results with industry-proven services that leverage purpose-built tools for the successful containerization of Windows Server applications in the enterprise. This new service offering is based on proven methodologies from Docker’s extensive experience working with hundreds of enterprises to modernize traditional applications. To accelerate migration of legacy applications, Docker leverages a purpose-built tool, called Docker Application Converter, to automatically scan systems for specific applications and speed up the containerization process by automatically creating Docker artifacts. Similarly, Docker Certified Infrastructure accelerates customers’ ability to operationalize the Docker Enterprise container platform. Docker Certified Infrastructure includes configuration best practices, automation tools and validated solution guides for integrating containers into enterprise IT infrastructure like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

  • Foundation for continuous innovation: Software-driven transformation that enables continuous innovation across any application, anywhere 

    Docker’s platform and methodologies enable organizations to both modernize existing applications and adopt new technologies to meet business needs. This enables transformation to be driven by business and not technical dependencies. Customers can easily integrate new technology stacks and architecture without friction, including: cloud-native apps, microservices, data science, edge computing, and AI.

  But don’t just take our word for it. Tele2, a European telecommunications company, is rolling out Docker Enterprise to containerize their legacy Windows Applications at scale.

  “We have a vision to ‘cloudify’ everything and transform how we do business as a telecom provider. Docker Enterprise is a key part of that vision. With Docker Enterprise, we have already containerized over half of our application portfolio and accelerated deployment cycles. We are looking forward to getting the advanced Windows Server support features in Docker Enterprise 2.1 into production.”

  — Gregory Bohcke, Technical Architect, Tele2

  By containerizing legacy applications and their dependencies with the Docker Enterprise container platform, businesses can be moved to Windows Server 2016 (and later OS) without code changes, saving millions in development costs. And because containerized applications run independently of the underlying operating system, they break the cycle of extensive, dependency-ridden upgrades, creating a future-proof architecture that makes it easy to always stay current on the latest OS.

  Take the next steps with Docker:

  • Learn more by visiting the Windows Server Application Migration page
  • Contact us to schedule an assessment and find out how much you can save
  • Register for our upcoming webinar: Docker Enterprise: The Next Leap Forward for Windows Server Applications

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  Introducing Docker Enterprise 2.1 – Advancing Our Container Platform Leadership
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  Today, we’re excited to announce Docker Enterprise 2.1 – the leading enterprise container platform in the market and the only one designed for both Windows and Linux applications. When Docker Enterprise 2.1 is combined with our industry-proven tools and services in the new Windows Server application migration program, organizations get the best platform for securing and modernizing Windows Server applications, while building a foundation for continuous innovation across any application, anywhere.

  In addition to expanded support for Windows Server, this latest release further extends our leadership position by introducing advancements across key enterprise requirements of choice, agility and security.

  Choice: Expanding Support for Windows Server and New Kubernetes Features

  

  Docker Enterprise 2.1 adds support for Windows Server 1709, 1803 and Windows Server 2019* in addition to Windows Server 2016. This means organizations can take advantage of the latest developments for Docker Enterprise for Windows Server Containers while supporting a broad set of Windows Server applications.

  • Smaller image sizes: The latest releases of Windows Server support much smaller image sizes which means improved performance downloading base images and building applications, contributing to faster application delivery and lower storage costs.
  • Improved compatibility requirements: With Windows Server 1709 and beyond, the host operating system and container images can deploy using different Windows Server versions, making it more flexible and easier to run containers on a shared operating system.
  • Networking enhancements: Windows Server 1709 also introduced expanded support for Swarm-based routing mesh capabilities, including service publishing using ingress mode and VIP-based service discovery when using overlay networks.

  In addition to Windows Server updates, Docker Enterprise also gets updated with Kubernetes 1.11 and support for pod autoscaling among other new Kubernetes features.

  *Pending Microsoft’s release of Windows Server 2019

  Agility: Greater Insights & Serviceability

  As many containerized applications are considered business critical, organizations want to be able to manage and secure these applications over their entire lifecycle. Docker Enterprise 2.1 includes several enhancements to help administrators better streamline Day 2 cluster and application operations:

  • New out-of-the-box dashboards: Enhanced health status dashboards provide greater insight into node and container metrics and allow for faster troubleshooting of issues as well as early identification of emerging issues.
  • Visibility to known vulnerabilities at runtime: Administrators can now identify running containers with known vulnerabilities to better triage and remediate issues.
  • Task activity streams: Administrators can view and track tasks and background activities in the registry including things like vulnerability scans in progress or database updates.
  • Manage images at scale: Online garbage collection and policy-based image pruning help to reduce container image sprawl and reduce storage costs in the registry.
    

  Security: Enhanced Security & Compliance

  For many organizations in highly regulated industries, Docker Enterprise 2.1 adds several new important enhancements:

  • SAML 2.0 authentication: Integrate with your preferred Identity Provider through SAML to enable Single Sign-On (SSO) or multi-factor authentication (MFA).
  • FIPS 140-2 validated Docker Engine: The cryptographic modules in Docker Engine – Enterprise have been validated against FIPS 140-2 standards which also impacts industries that follow FISMA, HIPAA and HITECH and others.
  • Detailed audit logs: Docker Enterprise 2.1 now includes detailed logs across both the cluster and registry to capture users, actions, and timestamps for a full audit trail. These are required for forensic analysis after a security incident and to meet certain compliance regulations.
  • Kubernetes network encryption: Protect all host-to-host communications with the optional IPSec encryption module that includes key management and key rotation.

  How to Get Started

  We’re excited to share Docker Enterprise 2.1 – the first and only enterprise container platform for both Windows and Linux applications – and it’s available today!

  To learn more about this release:

  • Register for our upcoming webinar, Docker Enterprise: The Next Leap Forward for Windows Server Applications
  • Try it for yourself in our free, hosted trial
  • Read more about Docker Enterprise 2.1 or access the documentation.
  • Register for DockerCon Europe 2018 in Barcelona (December 3-5) to hear from Docker experts and customers about their containerization journey.

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  The Push to Modernize at William & Mary
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  At William & Mary, our IT infrastructure team needs to be nimble enough to support a leading-edge research university — and deliver the stability expected of a 325 year old institution. We’re not a large school, but we have a long history. We’re a public university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, and founded in 1693, making us the second-oldest institution of higher education in America. Our alumni range from three U.S. presidents to Jon Stewart.

  The Linux team in the university’s central IT department is made up of 5 engineers. We run web servers, DNS, LDAP, the backend for our ERP system, components of the content management system, applications for administrative computing, some academic computing, plus a long list of niche applications and middleware. In a university environment with limited IT resources, legacy applications and infrastructure are expensive and time-consuming to keep going.

  Some niche applications are tools built by developers in university departments outside of IT. Others are academic projects. We provide infrastructure for all of them, and sometimes demand can ramp up quickly. For instance, an experimental online course catalog was discovered by our students during a registration period. Many students decided they liked the experimental version better and told their friends. The unexpected demand at 7am sent developers and engineers scrambling.

  More recently, IT was about to start on a major upgrade of our ERP system that would traditionally require at least 100 new virtual machines to be provisioned and maintained. The number of other applications was also set to double. This put a strain on our network and compute infrastructure.  Even with a largely automated provisioning process, we didn’t have much time to spare.

  We wanted to tackle both the day-to-day infrastructure management challenges and the scalability concerns. That’s what led us to look at Docker. After successfully running several production applications on Docker Engine – Community, we deployed the updated ERP application in containers on Docker Enterprise. We’re currently running on five bare metal Dell servers that support 47 active services and over 100 containers with room to grow.

  Docker Enterprise also dramatically simplifies our application release cycles. Now most applications, including the ERP deployment, are being containerized. Individual departments can handle their own application upgrades, rollbacks and other changes without waiting for us to provision new infrastructure. We can also scale resources quickly, taking advantage of the public cloud as needed.

  Just like our researchers have done for years, Docker has also enabled deeper collaboration with our counterparts at other universities. As we all work on completing the same major ERP upgrade we’re able to easily share and adopt enhancements much faster than with traditional architectures.

  Today, Docker Enterprise is our application platform of choice. Going forward, it opens up all kinds of possibilities. We are already exploring public cloud for bursting compute resources and large-scale storage. In a year or two, we expect to operate 50 percent to 80 percent in the cloud.

  Read the William & Mary Case Study

  Guest Blog | Phil Fenstermacher, Systems Engineer, William & Mary

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