Right-sizing with Docker Stats and cAdvisor

Right-sizing Docker

Thanks to Jared for the base image CC BY 2.0 Overview Containers make life easy. Oh, you don’t have Ruby 2.2 installed? No problem, try this Docker image. Knowing what I tested on my local is exactly what’s running on production gives me warm fuzzies. Docker gets a lot of love because it simplifies development.…

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Defrag 2015: Our Favorites From Day Two

This post is a continuation of our Defrag 2015 coverage from yesterday. Read on to hear about our favorite talks from day two. Talks Where Does the Time Go? – Researching Top Activities At Work Lisa Kamm is a Product Manager at Google. She got involved with a project to figure out how Googler’s spend…

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First Class Support for Docker: Better Service, More Legroom

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Thanks to Richard Moross for the base image CC BY 2.0 Overview “Docker, please visit the front desk to receive your complimentary upgrade to first-class seating.“ That’s right, Docker just received a first-class upgrade on Iron.io. A ways back, Travis (our digital frontiers-man of a CTO) announced beta support for Docker. Today, we’re ripping off…

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#GoSF: Identity, Safe Secrets, and IoT Friendly Languages

The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. CC BY 3.0 US Last night’s meetup, which was hosted by Betable, included two presentations and two lightning talks rounding out a solid evening for the GoSF group. Topics included identity on the web, safe storage of tokens (beyond ENV vars), and even the debut of a…

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2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, part 2

Yesterday we shipped part 1 of our Container Summit notes. Today is a continuation! We’ll share a few of the other talks we enjoyed. In this post you’ll find stories from Wall Street veterans, open source giants, and nimble challengers.

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2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, Part 1

A day ago I joined 700+ folks at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to attend the 2015 Container Summit. Container’s are young, but one thing this event made clear is the forebears have been around quite a while. A favorite part of the summit was hearing war stories. That is, how containers are called on…

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An Easier Way to Create Tiny Golang Docker Images

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Overview Atlassian just posted a blog post about creating Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX which shows how to make a tiny little Docker image (~6MB total) with your Go program inside. When I read it, I thought “this is cool… but way too complicated”. I’ve been using Docker a lot lately and knew…

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How to Cross Compile Go Programs using Docker

There are several ways to cross compile Go programs, but the way we’re going to show you is awesome because you don’t have to install any libs or anything. That said, you do need Docker installed, but you already have that anyways, right? We use this to create our Iron.io command line tool binaries. You…

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Project Thor Will Deliver First True Hybrid IronWorker Solution

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Today, Iron.io announced Project Thor, which is developing the world’s first hybrid job processing system. This is unlike anything we’ve done to date. Unlike previous IronWorker technology, Project Thor is architected to deliver the power of Iron.io to any server in the world in minutes. With Project Thor, the Iron.io IronWorker Docker container is deployed…

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