docker

Use Docker Compose to create on-demand databases within your local & build environments...

Over the past two articles I've described building a Continuous Delivery pipeline for my blog (the one you are currently reading). The first article covered packaging the blog into a Docker container and the second covered using Travis CI to build the Docker image and perform automated testing against it. While the first two articles covered quite a bit of the CD pipeline there is one piece missing; automating deployment. While there are many infrastructure and application tools for automated deployments I've chosen to use Saltstack....

In last months article we discussed “Dockerizing” this blog. What I left out from that article was how I also used Docker Hub's automatic builds functionality to automatically create a new image every time changes are made to the GitHub Repository which contains the source for this blog. The automatic builds are useful because I can simply make changes to the code or articles within the repository and once pushed, those changes trigger Docker Hub to build an image using the Dockerfile we created in the previous article....

Docker is an interesting technology that over the past 2 years has gone from an idea, to being used by organizations all over the world to deploy applications. In today's article I am going to cover how to get started with Docker by “Dockerizing” an existing application. The application in question is actually this very blog! What is Docker Before we dive into learning the basics of Docker let's first understand what Docker is and why it is so popular....