One thing Docker (valued at $1 billion in April 2015 based on funding) has certainly done is generated a lot of excitement around containers – Microsoft is now developing them for the next Windows Server release – and I felt it might be interesting to start exploring them in some more detail.
My efforts proved there is a wealth of information out there and I thought it might be useful to try and summarise some of that into a high level introduction. Needless to say even at a high level it became very wordy so I present to you my introduction to containers poster:
As I alluded to earlier, I came across a wealth of resources; some of the highlights below:
Gartner: Security Properties of Containers Managed by Docker
Gartner: Become More Agile and Get Ready for DevOps by Using Docker in Your Continuous Integration Environments
The Docker Book by James Turnball
WHY YOU DON’T NEED TO RUN SSHD IN YOUR DOCKER CONTAINERS (https://blog.docker.com/tag/nsenter/ )
Nulecule: A Composite Container-based Application Specification (http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/nulecule)
Getting Started with etcd
(https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/getting-started-with-etcd.html)
Please note this post was originally posted on LinkedIn
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