With its container-friendly design, the Alpine Docker Official Image (DOI) helps developers build and deploy lightweight, cross-platform applications.It’s based on Alpine Linux which debuted in 2005, making it one of today’s newest major Linux distros. 

While some developers express security concerns when using relatively newer images, Alpine has earned a solid reputation.Developers favor Alpine for the following reasons:  

It has a smaller footprint, and therefore a smaller attack surface (even evading 2014’s ShellShock Bash exploit!). It takes up less disk

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That’s a wrap!Community All-Hands has officially come to a close.Our sixth All-Hands featured over 35 talks across 10 channels — with topics ranging from “getting started with Docker” to running machine learning on AI hardware accelerators. As always, every channel was buzzing with activity.Your willingness to jump in, ask questions, and help others is what the Docker community’s all about.And we loved having the chance to chat with everyone directly!  Couldn’t attend our recent Community All-Hands event?We’ll cover some important announcements,

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If you’re looking to bring a stack of old family photos back to life, check out Ubuntu’s demo on how to use OpenVINO on Ubuntu containers to colorize monochrome pictures.This magical use of containers, neural networks, and Kubernetes is packed with helpful resources and a fun way to dive into deep learning!

A version of Part 1 and Part 2 of this article was first published on Ubuntu’s blog.

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OpenVINO on Ubuntu containers:making developers’ lives

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Docker Captains are select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others.“Docker Captains Take 5” is a regular blog series where we get a closer look at our Captains and ask them the same broad set of questions ranging from what their best Docker tip is to whether they prefer cats or dogs (personally, we like whales and turtles over here).Today, we’re interviewing Sebastien Flochlay who recently joined the

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Docker Desktop 4.12 is now live!This release brings some key quality-of-life improvements to the Docker Dashboard.We’ve also made some changes to our container image management and added it as an experimental feature.Finally, we’ve made it easier to find useful Extensions.Let’s dive in.

Execute commands in a running container straight from the Docker Dashboard

Developers often need to explore a running container’s contents to understand its current state or debug it when issues arise.With Docker Desktop 4.12, you can quickly start

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