We’ve just shipped new versions of the BuildKit builder engine, Dockerfile 1.4 frontend, and Docker We’ve just shipped new versions of the BuildKit builder engine, Dockerfile 1.4 frontend, and Docker Buildx CLI.Each of these comes with many new features.In this blog post, I’ll show one of them, a new copy mode in Dockerfiles, and explain why you should start to use it on your Dockerfiles. With the Dockerfile 1.4 release, the COPY and ADD commands for copying files from the

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Introducing virtiofs

The 4.6 release of Docker Desktop for Mac contains a number of changes that drastically improve file sharing performance for macOS users.Firstly, developers now have the option of using a new experimental file sharing implementation called virtiofs (the current default is gRPC-FUSE).Secondly, improvements have been made to the way that files are synced between the macOS host and Docker VM.During testing with our amazing macOS community of users, we have observed that these changes have reduced the time taken to complete

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You might have heard about a new Linux vulnerability that was released last week, CVE-2022-0847, aka “Dirty Pipe”.This vulnerability overwrites supposedly read-only files in the Linux kernel host, which could enable attackers to modify files inside the host images from the container instance. If you use Docker Engine natively, we recommend you should update your Linux OS to a version that has patched the vulnerability, e.g.Linux 5.16.11, 5.15.25, and 5.10.102.  For those of you using Docker Desktop, we recently

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Nine years ago today, March 15, 2013, Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, first demoed Docker publicly to the world at PyCon.On stage Solomon noted that, for developers, “shipping to the server is hard,” and thus he and the early team designed Docker to help developers more easily build, share, and run any app, anywhere.The rest, as they say, is history. Fast forward to today, and thanks to Solomon, hundreds of Docker employees past and present, and millions of developers, community members, contributors, customers,

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Today, Docker and Amazon are happy to announce the availability of Docker Business on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.This is a huge step in providing more choice and flexibility to Docker and AWS customers, so you can procure the Docker Application Development Platform – including leading tools, services, integrations, and content – through your preferred channel. Docker Business was launched in August 2021, as part of Docker’s new product subscription tiers.It addresses challenges faced by organizations that require developer management and software security at scale

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