While many people know about Docker, not that many know its history and where it came from.Docker was started as a project in the dotCloud company, founded by Solomon Hykes, which provided a PaaS solution.The project became so successful that dotCloud renamed itself to Docker, Inc. and focused on Docker as its primary product. As the “Docker project” grew from being a proof of concept shown off at various meetups and at PyCon in 2013 to a real community project, it needed a

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As a Docker Compose maintainer, my daily duty is to check for newly reported issues and try to help users through misunderstanding and possible underlying bugs.Sometimes issues are very well documented, sometimes they are nothing much but some “please help” message.And sometimes they look really weird and can result in funny investigations.Here is the story of how we solved one such report…

A one-line bug report

An issue was reported as

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This is a guest post by Docker Captain Nicholas Dille, a blogger, speaker and author with 15 years of experience in virtualization and automation.He works as a DevOps Engineer at Haufe Group, a digital media company located in Freiburg, Germany.He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.
In this virtual meetup, I share how to improve image builds using the features in BuildKit.BuildKit is an alternative builder with great features like caching, concurrency and the ability

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One of the most productive meetings I had KubeCon in San Diego last November was a meeting with Docker, Amazon and Microsoft to plan a collaboration around a new version of the CNCF project Notary.We held the Notary v2 kickoff meeting a few weeks later in Seattle in the Amazon offices. Emphasising that this is a cross-industry collaboration, we had eighteen people in the room (with more dialed in) from Amazon, Microsoft, Docker, IBM, Google, Red Hat, Sylabs and JFrog.This represented all the container

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One of the most requested features for the docker-compose tool is definitely support for building using Buildkit which is an alternative builder with great capabilities, like caching, concurrency and ability to use custom BuildKit front-ends just to mention a few… Ahhh with a nice blue output!And the good news is that Docker Compose 1.25.1 – that was just released early January – includes BuildKit support! BuildKit support for Docker Compose is actually achieved by redirecting the

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