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Being intentional with container terminology

When writing and speaking about linux container technologies I’m trying to be more intentional with the words I use, which means often avoiding the word docker. My goal is to communicate clearly to both experts and novices alike.

Goodbye Docker Desktop for Mac, Hello Colima

Today is the deadline for the license changes to Docker Desktop for Mac and Windows. This means that if you are employed at a company with more than 250 employees or your company makes more than $10m you need to start paying a subscription to continue using Docker Desktop.

Docker Desktop for Mac alternatives for developers

In a couple of days Docker will begin charging employees of companies with >250 employees to use Docker Desktop. I have no problem with paying for software that brings me value, but you wouldn’t believe how complex it can be for large companies to sign employees up to subscription services. Paperwork everywhere! To avoid this I’m evaluating alternatives for Docker Desktop to use on my MacBook.

Building Telegraf for 32bit FreeBSD

Introduction

Currently InfluxData do not provide a 32bit FreeBSD build of Telegraf as part of their standard packages. Luckily it is easy to build yourself.

Running Telegraf inside a docker container

Telegraf is an application for collecting server and application telemetry and metrics and sending them to a time series datastore like InfluxDB. Like me you may prefer running all of your applications in Docker containers, however this means Telegraf will only collect data for the container. This article will cover the configuration options to allow Telegraf to collect host metrics from inside a container.

Lab School: Docker

Originally published on the Met Office Informatics Lab blog on June 24th, 2015.

Welcome to the first ever Lab School session. This session aims to give you an overview of docker and how we are currently using it in the Lab.