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Related Projects
OS
- Coreos (Linux for Massive Server Deployments)
- Atomic (A platform optimized for Linux containers)
- Rancheio (Simple, elegant tools for managing Docker in production)
- Snappy (A new, transactionally updated Ubuntu for clouds and devices)
- Photon
- ClearLinux (The Clear Linux™ Project for Intel® Architecture is a project that is building a Linux OS distribution for various cloud use cases)
Virtual Machine
- boot2docker (Lightweight Linux for Docker)
- dvm (An on demand Docker virtual machine)
Competitors
- rocket (App Container runtime)
- dockerlite (Lightweight virtualization system based on LXC and BTRFS)
- lmctfy (lmctfy is the open source version of Google’s container stack, which provides Linux application containers.)
- OpenVZ
- Hyper (Hyper = Hypervisor + Kernel + Docker Image)
- bocker (Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash)
Management Tools
- kubernetes (Container Cluster Manager)
- shipyard (Composable Docker Management)
- swarm (A Docker-native clustering system)
- citadel (A toolkit for building a distributed docker cluster)
- docker-cluster (Cluster support for Docker, using the remote API)
- compose (Define and run complex applications using Docker)
- shutit (Complex and Dynamic Docker Builds Made Simple)
- maestro (Container orchestration for Docker environments)
- decking (A Docker helper to create, manage and run clusters of containers)
- flocker (Easily manage Docker containers & their data)
- serf (Service orchestration and management tool)
- marathon (Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale)
- gaudi (Gaudi allows to share multi-component applications, based on Docker, Go, and YAML)
- panamax (Docker management for humans)
- clocker (Brooklyn managed Docker containers)
- fleet (A Distributed init System)
- Meteor(Clustering solution for Meteor with load balancing and service discovery)
- helios (Docker container orchestration platform)
- maestro-ng (Orchestration of Docker-based, multi-host environments)
- shipper (Fabric for docker containers)
- origin (OpenShift 3 – build, deploy, and manage your applications with Docker and Kubernetes)
- autodock (The docker container automation tool.)
- blockade (Docker-based utility for testing network failures and partitions in distributed applications,docs)
- rancher (A Platform for Operating Docker in Production.rancher.com)
- rocker-compose (Docker composition tool with idempotency features for deploying apps composed of multiple containers.)
- chronos(Fault tolerant job scheduler for Mesos which handles dependencies and ISO8601 based schedules)
Paas Platforms
- flynn (A next generation open source platform as a service)
- deis (Your PaaS. Your Rules)
- peas (Docker and Ruby based PaaS)
- dawn (Docker-based PaaS in Ruby)
- octohost(Simple web focused Dockerfile based PaaS server)
- dokku (Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash)
- cloudfoundry
- paz (A pluggable in-house service platform with a PaaS-like workflow, built on Docker, CoreOS, Etcd and Fleet)
- armada (Complete solution for development, deployment, configuration and discovery of microservices)
Integration Projects
- openstack-docker (Nova driver and Glance backend to use Docker inside OpenStack)
- Jenkins Cloud Plugin for Docker
- deimos (Mesos containerizer hooks for Docker)
- garether-docker (Puppet module for managing docker)
- systemd-docker (Wrapper for “docker run” to handle systemd quirks)
- docker-ansible (Ansible module for Docker)
Monitoring
- seagull (Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon)
- dockerana (Docker Monitoring with support for Grafana and Graphite)
- docker-mon(Console-based Docker monitoring)
- cadvisor (Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers)
- Prometheus (The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database,see the docker exporter)
Networking
- weave (The Docker Network)
- wormhole (A smart proxy to connect docker containers.)
- flannel (flannel is an etcd backed network fabric for containers)
- calico-docker(Docker version of Project Calico,Calico can provide networking in a Docker environment)
- libnetwork (networking for containers)
Continuous Integration
- drone (A Continuous Integration platform built on Docker)
Development And Deployment
- tug (Docker development workflow)
- vagga(Vagga is a tool to create development environments)
- longshoreman (Automated deployment with Docker)
- centurion (A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets)
- shutit (Complex and Dynamic Docker Builds Made Simple)
- dockership (dead simple docker deploy tool)
- devstep (Development environments powered by Docker and buildpacks)
- docker-devenv (Docker based development environment)
- dexec (Command line interface for running code with Docker Exec images)
Logging
Service Discovery
- skydock (based on DNS)
- Consul (Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration)
- registrator(Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters)
- etcd (A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery)
- docker-grand-ambassador ( fully dynamic docker link ambassador)
- confd (Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul)
- ambassadord (Magic Docker ambassador)
- logcabin (LogCabin is a distributed storage system built on Raft that provides a small amount of highly replicated, consistent storage)
Private Registry
- docket (Custom docker registry that allows for lightning fast deploys through bittorrent)
- docker-registry (Registry server for Docker (hosting/delivering of repositories and images))
- wharf(ContainerOps Open Source Platform)
- distribution (The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content)
- dogestry (simple docker image storage on s3)
- docker-private-registry (Private Docker Registry)
- speedy (a distributed docker image storage)
UI Tools
- dockerboard (Simple dashboards, visualizations, managements for your dockers)
- Kitematic (for MAC OSX)
- dockerui (A web interface for docker)
- docker-registry-web (A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration)
- Portus (Authorization service and frontend for Docker registry v2)
- panamax-ui (The Web GUI for Panamax)
- seagull (Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon)
Storage
- pfs (A git-like distributed file system for a dockerized world)
Volumes
- docker-volumes (Docker Volume Manager)
Security
- subuser (Run programs in linux with selectively restricted permissions)
Applications
- ferry (define, run, and deploy big data applications on AWS, OpenStack, and your local machine using Docker,ferry.opencore.io)
- codecube (Docker-powered runnable code snippets)
- DUnit (Test code against multiple versions of PHP with the help of docker)
- PHP Stack (Docker- and Shipyard-managed PHP development stack: Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP-FPM, HHVM, Memcached, Redis, and Elasticsearch. Includes an optional Vagrant-managed CoreOS proxy box at your leisure.)
- Django Demo (Demo Django App using Docker)
- dnt (Docker Node Tester)
- dockermail (A secure, minimal-configuration mail server in a docker container.)
- docker-rpm-builder (Build native RPM packages by leveraging docker capabilities)
- tmpnb (Creates temporary Jupyter Notebook servers using Docker containers)
- open-ocr (Run your own OCR-as-a-Service using Tesseract and Docker)
- dray (An engine for managing the execution of container-based workflows)
- kolla (Deploying OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker)
- docker-desktop (Docker Desktop enables you to create virtual desktops that can be accessed remotely. It comes with Firefox and Libreoffice already installed)
Images And Dockerfiles
- dockly (DSL and Gem for building ready-to-launch Docker images)
- baseimage-docker (A minimal Ubuntu base image modified for Docker-friendlines)
- busybox (Busybox for Stackbrew)
- busybox (Busybox container with glibc+opkg)
- dockerfile-examples
- passenger-docker (Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps)
- Dockerfile Project
- Dockerfiles(Collection of Dockerfiles)
- docker-desktop (create virtual desktops that can be accessed remotely)
- StealthBox(Share your favorite content remotely without spoiling your home network)
- Machine Learning (Get up and running with machine learning using Docker)
- Gitlab (Dockerized gitlab web server)
- Discourse (A Docker image for Discourse)
- OpenVPN (Recipe to build an OpenVPN image for Docker)
- WordPress+nginx (A Dockerfile that installs the latest wordpress, nginx and php-fpm.another wordpress image) / another one wordpress
- Nignx-Proxy (Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen)
- docker-squash (Squash docker images to make them smaller)
- Mysql (Docker image to run an out-of-the-box MySQL server)
- CentOS-Dockerfiles (Dockerfiles for various common implementations)
- Redmine (Dockerized redmine app server)
- Spark (Dockerfiles and scripts for Spark and Shark Docker images)
- docker-grafana-graphite (Docker image with StatsD, Graphite, Grafana and a Kamon Dashboard)
- Elasticsearch (ElasticSearch Dockerfile for trusted automated Docker builds)
- docker-alpine (Docker image based on Alpine Linux will help you win at minimalism)
- Hadoop (Hadoop docker image)
- R (R configurations for Docker)
- ASP.NET (Docker image for ASP.NET 5.)
- nmpjs (Docker image for a private npmjs repository)
- Jenkins (Builds a Docker image for Jenkins)
- Postgres (Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres)
- Logstash (Docker image for Logstash 1.4 )
Containers
- dockize (Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers)
- Supervisor (A Process Control System)
- CFEngine (Process management)
- docker-gen (Generate files from docker container meta-data)
- tini (A tiny but valid
initfor containers) - S6 (s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision)
Extensions
- powerstrip (A tool for prototyping Docker extensions)
API Client
- docker-py (Python)
- docker-api (Ruby)
- dockernode (Node.js)
- go-dockerclient (Golang)
- docker-php (PHP)
- dockerclient (Golang)
- docker-java (Java)
Others
- dockersh (A shell which places users into individual docker containers)
- buildstep (Buildstep uses Docker and Buildpacks to build applications like Heroku)
- dind(Docker in Docker)
- building (Build a Docker container for any app using Heroku Buildpacks)
- torrent-docker (realtime boot of remote docker images using bittorrent)
- docker-backup (Tool for backing up docker volume / data containers)
- Docker Support in IntelliJ IDEA 14.1
- dockerception (Docker building dockers – keeping them small)
- docker-gc (Docker garbage collection of containers and images)
Blog Posts
General
- The Frontend Developer’s Guide to Docker
- Docker and Go: why did we decide to write Docker in Go ( pdf slide)
- How to Use Docker on OS X: The Missing Guide
- 24 random docker tips
- The 5 Most Important Things I’ve Learned From Using Docker
- A Simple Way to Dockerize Applications
- Docker orchestration
- Docker’s rise from sleeper to open source king
- Faster Builds with Container-Based Infrastructure and Docker
- Run ARM binaries in your Docker Container using Boot2Docker…
- How to Use Docker on Windows
- Docker on OS X with VMWare Fusion
Docker
About Images
- Docker Image Insecurity
- Building good docker images
- Your docker image might might be broken without you knowing it
- Flat Docker images
- Baseimage-docker, fat containers and “treating containers as VMs”
- Create The Smallest Possible Docker Container
- Creating a Docker image from your code
- Optimizing Docker Images
- Building Docker Images for Static Go Binaries
- Squashing Docker Images
- Building a Multi-Purpose Docker Image
- Docker layers cost
- Deterministic and minimal docker images
About Storage
- Comprehensive Overview of Storage Scalability in Docker
- Resizing Docker containers with the Device Mapper plugin
- Where are Docker images stored
- Persistent Distributed Filesystems in Docker without NFS or Gluster
- Deep dive into Docker storage drivers
About Volumes
Dockerfiles
- 6 Dockerfile Tips from the Official Images
- Writing Dockerfile
- How to Optimize Your Dockerfile
- Dockerfile Golf (or optimizing the Docker build process)
- Dockerfile Best Practices
About Containers
- What is the difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT in a Dockerfile
- Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem
- Data-only container madness
- On-demand activation of Docker containers with systemd
- Docker and S6 – My New Favorite Process Supervisor
- On Docker Container Composition
- Introducing a Super Privileged Container Concept
- Docker Inspect Template Magic
- ‘Piping’ Hot Docker Containers
- Checkpoint and restore Docker container with CRIU
About Security
- Why you don’t need to run sshd in your docker containers
- shocker: docker PoC VMM-container breakout
- Containers&Docker: How secure are they
- Docker and SELinux
- Bringing new security features to Docker
- Docker Secure Deployment Guidelines
- Docker Container Breakout Proof-Of-Concept Exploit
- The dangers of UFW + Docker
- Tuning Docker with the newest security enhancements
Resource Management
About Networking
- Advanced networking
- DNS And docker containers
- Coupling Docker and Open vSwitch
- Connecting Docker containers on multiple hosts
- Muti-host Docker Network
- Life and Docker networking
- Docker intercontainer networking explained
- SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead
- Four ways to connect a docker container to a local network
- Docker intercontainer networking explained
About Monitoring
- Gathering lxc and docker containers metrics
- nsinit: per-container resource monitoring of Docker containers on RHEL/Fedora
- Runtime Metrics
- Monitor Docker Containers with Prometheus
About Private Registry
API
Performance
- PostgreSQL Performance on Docker
- Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Preview of Docker Benchmarking at Flux7
- Getting Started with Performance Analysis of Docker
- Docker network performances
- Docker Containers: Smaller is not always better
Process Management
Think Deeply
- Lets review.. Docker (again)
- docker is the heroku killer
- boycott docker
- Docker isn’t so bad
- Is docker ready for production
- After Docker:Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure
- Docker’s Killer Feature
- Linux Containers: Parallels, LXC, OpenVZ, Docker and More
- dockerizability is better than dockerized
- Ignore the Hype: 5 Docker Misconceptions Java Developers Should Consider
- Challenges With Randomness In Multi-tenant Linux Container Platforms
Rocket
- App Container and Docker
- App Container Specification
- Why Docker and Coreos’split was predictable
- Of Containers, Dockers, Rockets, and Daemons
- Why CoreOS just fired a Rocket at Docker
- Rocket vs Docker and The Myth of the “Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform
- What is Rocket and How It’s Different Than Docker
Underlying Techniques
LXC
- Exploring LXC Networking
- Linux Containers (from archwiki)
Cgroups
- cgroups (from kernel.org)
- Managing system resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Cgroups (from archwiki)
Systemd
- The systemd for Administrators Blog Series (great series,check the index in here)
- Getting Started with systemd (from coreos)
- Systemd (from archwiki)
- Running Docker Containers with Systemd
- Docker without Docker (slide)
Namespaces
- Namespaces in operation
- Introduction to Linux namespaces – Part 1: UTS / part2 /part3 / part4 /part5
Various Projects
Compose
Swarm
- Docker Containers at Scale (Our Take on Docker Swarm)
- Getting Started with docker swarm
- Scaling docker with swarm
- Intro to Docker Swarm: Part 1 – Overview / Part 2 – Configuration Options and Requirements / Part 3 – Example Swarm SOA / Part 4 – Demo
- Creating SSL/TLS Certificates for Docker and Docker Swarm
- Running a Small Docker Swarm Cluster
Mesosphere
- Launching a Docker Container on Mesosphere
- Managing Docker Clusters Using Mesos and Marathon
- Docker on Mesos
- Running Docker Containers on Marathon
- Mesos + Docker Tutorial: How to Build Your Own Framework
- Continuous Delivery with Docker on Mesos in less than a minute – Part 1 / part2
- ArangoDB on Apache Mesos using Marathon and Docker
- TOWARDS DOCKER IN PRODUCTION WITH APACHE MESOS
Kubernetes
- Deploying Kubernetes on CoreOS with Fleet and Flannel
- Running Kubernetes Example on CoreOS, Part 1
- How To Install and Configure Kubernetes on top of a CoreOS Cluster
- Corekube: Running Kubernetes on CoreOS via OpenStack
- Play With Kubernetes Quickly Using Docker
Openstack
Azure
Other Projects
- Chef, Puppet, Heat, Juju, Docker, etc
- Powerstrip: prototype Docker extensions today
- Docker extensions: the new Docker plugins model
- Docker Without Containers: Introducing Pullcontainer –docker and CVFS
- Process Management with CFEngine (CFEngine)
- Introducing flannel: An etcd backed overlay network for containers (flannel)
- Tiny docker operating system (Boot2Docker,RancherOS)
- Deploying Docker applications on YARN via Slider (slide)(YARN)
Usage
Apps
- Dockerizing a Python Web App
- Deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus with Docker
- Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker
- Transparent Squid in a container
- Deploying and migrating a multi-node ElasticSearch-Logstash-Kibana cluster using Docker
- Node With Docker – Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Rails on Docker
- Ad Hoc Log Analysis with Kibana and Docker
- Networking Spark Cluster on Docker with Weave
- Breaking Data Out of the Enterprise
- Using dockeer to build a data acqusition pipeline with kafka and hbase
- How to use MongoDB & NodeJS with Docker
- Wrapping Desktop Apps with Docker
- Deploying RethinkDB applications with Docker using Dokku
- Shipping Node.js Applications with Docker and Codeship
- Using Docker with Apache Flume – Part 1 / part2
- Multi-node Hadoop cluster on Docker
- Elasticsearch, Weave and Docker
- Running libvirtd in a container
- Creating honeypots using Docker
GUI
- Docker Containers on the Desktop
- Running GUI apps with Docker
- Docker desktop: Your desktop over ssh running inside of a docker container
Service Discovery With Docker
- Service Discovery Overview
- Consul Service Discovery with Docker
- Understanding Modern Service Discovery with Docker
- Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator
- Docker Service Discovery Using Etcd and Haproxy
- Simulating service discovery in a development context with Docker and etcd
Development And Deployment And Test
- Docker: Git for deployment
- Eight Docker Development Patterns
- Deploy Java Apps With Docker = Awesome
- Docker for Java Developers: How to sandbox your app in a clean environment
- Using Docker with Github and Jenkins for repeatable deployments
- Creating an ASP.NET vNext Docker Container using Mono
- Move fast and don’t break things! Testing with Jenkins, Ansible and Docker
- Docker and Phoenix: How to Make Your Continuous Integration More Awesome
- Docker in Action – Fitter, Happier, More Productive
- Docker in Action – Development to Delivery / part2 / part3
- ASP.NET 5 development on OS X with Docker
- The decline of Java application servers when using docker containers
Production
- Docker at Lyst
- Docker at Shopify: How we built containers that power over 100,000 online shops
- Intro to Docker …and how we use it at writeLaTex
- How We Use Docker For Continuous Delivery – Part 1
- How Syncano Used Docker to Simplify Their Development Process
- Docker in Production — What We’ve Learned Launching Over 300 Million Containers
- 10x: Docker at Clay.io
- BATTLEFY : How We Ship
- Docker in Production — What We’ve Learned Launching Over 300 Million Containers
- A production ready Docker workflow / part2 / part3 / part4
- How We Deploy Containers at Grammarly
- Developing With Docker At 500px, Part One
