It has been a while as I have been busy writing, I thought I would spend some of my freetime having a very quick play with Ansible AWX external link , which is the Open Source version of Ansible Tower external link . I created the following Vagrantfile to launch a CentOS 7 external link server; # -*- mode: ruby -*- # vi: set ft=ruby : VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2" Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config| config....

It has been a while since I have posted, since Docker Bootcamp was published I have been hard at work on the second edition of Mastering Docker for Packt external link which is now available from https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/mastering-docker-second-edition external link as well as Amazon and all other book stores.

I haven’t posted here in a while as I have been busy writting my third book. I am pleased to say that Docker Bootcamp will be published in the next few weeks by Packt external link . It is available for pre-order now external link .

I had some time today, so I thought I would combine two posts I have been planning on writing for a week or two, looking at Docker 1.13 and also Minio. It is important to note before you read further that this post does not cover using Mino as a storage backend for containers. It is about launching a distributed Minio installation in a Docker Swarm cluster and consuming the storage using the Minio command line client and web interface....

Following on from the post I wrote on Portainer; Portainer, a UI for Docker external link There was a lot of great feedback, like the following from Aleksandr Blekh, Ph.D. external link ; Great post, thank you! Could you briefly clarify why/when one would want to prefer Portainer to Rancher and vice versa. It would be great, if you could also touch on benefits of using Docker UIs versus Kubernetes-based PaaS, specifically OpenShift (which has UI for Docker container management)....

Its been quite a while since I wrote up what I am using on day to day, in fact I seem to have skipped all of 2016. Desktop Apps Not too much change on the Desktop … Visual Studio Code external link ; I started off the year Atom, but this gives me the same functionality and seems quicker Pastebot external link ; Working in tech means I copy and paste alot, this lets me sync and (not all from StackOverflow external link ) Bear external link ; For note taking … still using SublimeText external link (Still the best text editor around), 1Password external link , Photoshop external link , Omnigraffle external link , Tweetbot external link & MS Office external link ....

I thought it was about time, as I had some to spare today, to have a play with one of the new feature of the Elastic family of products I have yet to try. Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They install as lightweight agents and send data from hundreds or thousands of machines to Logstash or Elasticsearch. I have used an ELK stack before external link but never for metrics, it always been for more traditional log files and tools such as Zabbix external link have been my goto for metrics....

I have more and more people at work asking me about Docker and Kubernetes external link , so I thought it would be good to write down some instructions on bringing up a small test lab on my laptop. I had initially assumed that I would have to spend some time configuring a Vagrant box for this, but then I spotted the Minikube project external link . Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally....