Efficiently and Conveniently Building Ruby and Node.js Application Docker Containers for Production In this article we will show how we build Docker application containers in two steps and explain why that is a useful thing to do. We then walk you through writing a build script that not only builds an application conta
Baseimage-docker 0.9.19 released, based on Ubuntu 16.04 Baseimage-docker is a special Docker image that is configured for correct use within Docker containers. It is Ubuntu, plus modifications for Docker-friendliness. You can use it as a base for your own Docker images. Lear
LVE: an alternative container technology to Docker and Virtuozzo/LXC Editor: This is a guest post by Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux Founder & CEO. CloudLinux is an OS designed specifically for shared hosting providers. They use the Passenger application server and they employ an interesti
Baseimage-docker, fat containers and "treating containers as VMs" Baseimage-docker is a minimal Ubuntu base image that is modified for Docker-friendliness. People can pull Baseimage-docker from the Docker Registry and use it as a base image for their own images. We were early adopters
Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem When building Docker containers, you should be aware of the PID 1 zombie reaping problem. That problem can cause unexpected and obscure-looking issues when you least expect it. This article explains the PID 1 problem, ex