Introduction The first time I shipped a Node.js service to production, I ran docker images out of habit and stared at the number for a good ten seconds. The image was 1.1 GB, for an app whose actual code was only a few hundred kilobytes. It still worked, so I let it slide. Then the […]
Docker is a like your mini virtual machine that is very light on your host resources. Unlike virtual machines, which need their own kernel, Docker creates virtualized experience on top of your running kernel. The mini virtual machines provided by Docker are called “containers”. These containers are platform independent and can be reused for deploying […]
Sysdig has been one of the most advanced cloud-based tools for monitoring your infrastructure. So, talking about Docker monitoring, Sysdig gives us a lot of insights about our containers, few of which we will be talking about in this blog. Docker is the most widely used and trending tool when it comes to DevOps. USE-CASE […]
This blog post is about using docker-compose, a tool provided by docker to define and run multi container application using a single command. It uses a docker-compose.yml file as default input file. I got a use case which was to run a Nodejs application behind a Nginx acting as a reverse proxy in two different […]
In my last blog, we discussed how to setup MongoDB replica set on Docker, and in this blog we’ll be discussing setting up MongoDB docker containers using Chef. After going through this blog, you will be able to setup multiple MongoDB customized docker containers with ease. Use Case: As discussed in the previous blog, we earlier […]
