linux docker

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....