Awesome Docker

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What is Docker ?

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.

Source: What is Docker

Where to start ?

• 10-minute Interactive Tutorial
• Docker Training
• Read this complete article: Basics – Docker, Containers, Hypervisors, CoreOS
• Watch the video: Docker for Developers (54:26) by @jpetazzo
• Docker Jumpstart: a quick introduction
• Install Docker on your machine and play with a few Useful Images
• Try Panamax: Docker Management for Humans It will install a CoreOS VM with VirtualBox and has nice front end
• Install Docker Toolbox Docker Toolbox is an installer to quickly and easily install and setup a Docker environment on your computer. Available for both Windows and Mac, the Toolbox installs Docker Client, Machine, Compose (Mac only), Kitematic and VirtualBox.
• Check out: Docker Cheat Sheet by @wsargent MUST SEE
• Project Web Dev : (Article series) How to create your own website based on Docker
• Docker Containers on the desktop by @jfrazelle The funniest way to learn about docker! (Tips: checkout her dotfiles and her dockerfiles)
• Container Hacks and Fun Images by @jfrazelle @ DockerCon 2015 MUST WATCH VIDEO (38:50)

MENU

• What is Docker ?
• Where to start ?
• Useful Articles
• Main Resources
• General Articles
• Deep Dive
• Networking
• Metal
• Multi-Server
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Good Tips
• Newsletter
• Continuous Integration
• Optimizing Images
• Service Discovery
• Security
• Performances
• Raspberry Pi & ARM
• Other
• Books
• Tools
  • Dev Tools
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
  • Deployment
  • Hosting for repositories (registries)
  • Hosting for containers
  • Reverse Proxy
  • Web Interface
  • Local Container Manager
  • Useful Images
  • Dockerfile
  • Storing Images
  • Monitoring
  • Networking
  • Logging
  • Deployment and Infrastructure
  • PaaS
  • Remote Container Manager / Orchestration
  • Service Discovery
• Slides
• Videos
  • Main Account
  • Useful videos
• Interesting Twitter Accounts

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Useful Articles

Main Resources

• Docker Weekly Huge resource
• Docker Cheat Sheet by @wsargent MUST SEE
• Century Links Labs
• Valuable Docker Links Very complete
• Docker Ecosystem (Mind Map) MUST SEE
• Docker Ecosystem (PDF) MUST SEE find it on twitter by Bryzgalov Peter.
• Blog of @jpetazzo
• Blog of @progrium
• Blog of @jwilder
• Blog of @crosbymichael
• Blog of @gliderlabs
• Blog of @sebgoa
• Digital Ocean Community
• Container42
• Contrainer solutions
• DockerOne Docker Community (in Chinese) by @LiYingJie
• Project Web Dev : (Article series) How to create your own website based on Docker
• Docker vs. VMs? Combining Both for Cloud Portability Nirvana
• Docker Containers on the desktop by @jfrazelle The funniest way to learn about docker! (Tips: checkout her dotfiles and her dockerfiles)

General Articles

• Getting Started with Docker by @fideloper -- Servers For Hackers is valuable resource. At some point, every programmer finds themselves needing to know their way around a server.
• How to Use Docker on OS X: The Missing Guide
• Docker for (Java) Developers
• Deploying NGINX with Docker
• Eight Docker Development Patterns
• Rails Development Environment for OS X using Docker
• Logging on Docker: What You Need to Know + see the video (~50min)
• Comparing Five Monitoring Options for Docker
• Minimalistic data-only container for Docker Compose (Written Mar 1, 2015)
• Running Docker Containers with Systemd
• Dockerizing Flask With Compose and Machine - From Localhost to the Cloud -- GitHub Learn how to deploy an application using Docker Compose and Docker Machine (written 17 April 2015)
• Why and How to use Docker for Development (written 28 APR 2015)
• Automating Docker Logging: ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Logspout (written 27 APR 2015)
• Docker Host Volume Synchronization (written 1 JUN 2015)
• Multi-Service Local Development Environment with Vagrant and Docker (written 29 MAY 2015)
• From Local Development to Remote Deployment with Docker Machine and Compose (written 2 JUL 2015)
• Docker: Build, Ship and Run Any App, Anywhere by Martijn Dwars, Wiebe van Geest, Rik Nijessen, and Rick Wieman from Delft University of Technology (written 2 JUL 2015)
• Joining the Docker Ship Learn how to contribute to docker (written 9 JUL 2015)
• Continuous Deployment with Gradle and Docker Describes a complete pipeline from source to production deploy (includes a complete Spring Boot example project) by @gesellix

Deep Dive

• Creating containers - Part 1 This is part one of a series of blog posts detailing how docker creates containers. By @crosbymichael
• Data-only container madness

Networking

• Using Docker Machine with Weave 0.10 (written 22 APR 2015)
• How to Route Traffic through a Tor Docker container by @jfrazelle (writtent 20 JUN 2015)

Metal

• How to use Docker on Full Metal

Multi-Server

• Using Fig and Flocker to build, test, deploy and migrate multi-server Dockerized apps
• A Docker based mini-PaaS by @prologic

Cloud Infrastructure

• Cloud Infrastructure Automation for Docker Nodes

Good Tips

• 24 random docker tips by @csabapalfi
• GUI Apps with Docker by @fgrehm
• Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker by @jwilder
• Using NSEnter with Boot2Docker
• A Simple Way to Dockerize Applications by @jwilder
• Building good docker images by @jbergknoff
• 10 Things Not To Forget Before Deploying Docker In Production
• Make Your Docker Workflow Awesome With Fig.sh Fig is a python application that helps you run groups of docker containers.
• Docker CIFS – How to Mount CIFS as a Docker Volume
• Nginx Proxy for Docker (written 9 JUL 2015)
• Dealing with linked containers dependency in docker-compose by @rochacbruno
• Docker Tips by @jmervine

Newsletter

• Docker Team
• CenturyLinksLabs
• Tutum
• DevOps Weekly
• Shippable
• WebOps weekly

Continuous Integration

• Docker and Phoenix: How to Make Your Continuous Integration More Awesome

Optimizing Images

• Create the smallest possible Docker container
• Creating a Docker image from your code
• Optimizing Docker Images
• How to Optimize Your Dockerfile by @tutumcloud
• Building Docker Images for Static Go Binaries by @kelseyhightower
• Squashing Docker Images by @jwilder
• Dockerfile Golf (or optimizing the Docker build process)
• ImageLayers Visualize Docker images and the layers that compose them.

Service Discovery

• @progrium Service Discovery articles series:
• Consul Service Discovery with Docker
• Understanding Modern Service Discovery with Docker
• Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator

Security

• Docker and SELinux
• Bringing new security features to Docker
• Docker Secure Deployment Guidelines
• Security Best Practices for Building Docker Images
• Docker Security: Are Your Containers Tightly Secured to the Ship? SlideShare
• Tuning Docker with the newest security enhancements
• Lynis is an open source security auditing tool including Docker auditing
• Understanding Docker security and best practices (written 5 MAY 2015)

Performances

• Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Distrubuted JMeter testing using Docker
• nsinit: per-container resource monitoring of Docker containers on RHEL/Fedora

Raspberry Pi & ARM

• Docker Pirates ARMed with explosive stuff Huge resource on clustering, swarm, docker, pre-installed image for SD card on Raspberry Pi
• Docker on Raspberry Pi
• Fool-Proof Recipe: Docker on the Raspberry Pi Same article as above but more opinionated.
• Raspberry Pi with Docker 1.5.0
• Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1
• Swarming Raspberry Pi, Part 2: Registry & Mirror
• Swarming Raspberry Pi: Docker Swarm Discovery Options
• Uniform Development by Docker & QEMU
• Get Docker up and running on the RaspberryPi in four steps
• Installing, running, using Docker on armhf (ARMv7) devices

Other

• Presentation: Docker and JBoss - the perfect combination
• Vidéo
• Slides
• Code source

Books

• Docker Book by James Turnbul (@kartar)
• Docker Cookbook by Sébastien Goasguen (@sebgoa) (Publisher: O'Reilly)
• Docker Cookbook by Neependra Khare (@neependra) (Publisher: Packt)
• Docker in Action by Jeff Nickoloff (@allingeek)
• Docker in Practice by Ian Miell (@ianmiell) and Aidan Hobson Sayers (@aidanhs). ==> Website
• Docker Up & Running by Karl Matthias and Sean P. Kane
• Using Docker by Adrian Mouat (@adrianmouat)
• Docker: Container-Infrastruktur für Microservices (German) by Peter Roßbach (@PRossbach)

Tools

• Docker
• Docker Images
• Docker Compose (Define and run multi-container applications with Docker)
• Docker Machine (Machine management for a container-centric world)
• Docker Registry (The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content)
• Docker Swarm (Swarm: a Docker-native clustering system)

Dev Tools

• GoSu ("run this specific application as this specific user and get out of the pipeline" -- entrypoint script tool) by @tianon
• Chaperone ("A single PID1 process designed for docker containers. Does user management, log management, startup, zombie reaping, all in one small package.) by @garywiz
• ns-enter (no more ssh, enter name spaces of container) by @jpetazzo
• Squid-in-a-can (in case of proxy problem) by @jpetazzo
• docker-gen (Generate files from docker container meta-data) by @jwilder
• dockerize (Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers) by @jwilder
• registrator (Service registry bridge for Docker) by @progrium
• Dockly (Dockly is a gem made to ease the pain of packaging an application in Docker.) by @swipely
• docker-volumes (Docker Volume Manager) by @cpuguy83
• dockerfile_lint (A rule-based 'linter' for Dockerfiles) by @redhataccess
• powerstrip (A tool for prototyping Docker extensions) by @clusterhq
• Vagga (Vagga is a containerisation tool without daemons. It is a fully-userspace container engine inspired by Vagrant and Docker, specialized for development environments.) by @tailhook
• dockerode (Not just another Docker Remote API node.js module) by @apocas
• go-dockerclient (Go HTTP client for the Docker remote API.) by @fsouza
• container-factory (produces Docker images from tarballs of application source code http://www.containerfactory.io) by @lsqio
• percheron (Organise your Docker containers with muscle and intelligence) by @ashmckenzie
• crane (Lift containers with ease. Easy orchestration for images and containers) by @michaelsauter
• sherdock (Automatic GC of images based on regexp) by @rancherio
• bocker (1) (Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash) by p8952
• bocker (2) (Write Dockerfile completely in Bash. Extensible and simple. --> Reusable) by @icy
• docker-cli (A CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting for Docker commands.) by @j-bennet
• docker-gc (A cron job that will delete old stopped containers and unused images) by @spotify
• dlayer (Stats collector for Docker layers) by @wercker
• forward2docker (Utility to auto forward a port from localhost into ports on Docker containers running in a boot2docker VM) by @bsideup
• dockramp (Proof of Concept: A Client Driven Docker Image Builder) by @jlhawn
• portainer (Apache Mesos framework for building Docker images) by @tarnfeld
• Gradle Docker plugin a Docker remote api plugin for Gradle by @gesellix
• Docker client a Docker remote api client library for the JVM, written in Groovy by @gesellix
• [Dropdock][http://www.dropdock.io/] a framework designed for Drupal to build fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
• Devstep (Development environments powered by Docker and buildpacks) by @fgrehm
• Lorry (Lorry is a docker-compose.yml validator and composer) by @CenturyLinkLabs
• Dray (Dray is an engine for managing the execution of container-based workflows. Docker Workflow Engine - UNIX pipes for Docker) by @CenturyLinkLabs

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

• Drone - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
• Docker plugin for Jenkins - The aim of the docker plugin is to be able to use a docker host to dynamically provision a slave, run a single build, then tear-down that slave.
• Captain - Convert your Git workflow to Docker containers ready for Continuous Delivery by @harbur
• IBM DevOps Services - Continuous delivery using a pipeline deployment onto IBM Containers on Bluemix.
• Watchtower - Automatically update running Docker containers by @CenturyLinkLabs

Deployment

• Last.Backend - Last.Backend platform is designed for automatization of all routine work with the server and deployment of applications in one click using the visual interface.
• Conduit - Experimental deployment system for Docker by @ehazlett
• Zodiac - A lightweight tool for easy deployment and rollback of dockerized applications. By @CenturyLinkLabs

Hosting for repositories (registries)

Securely store your Docker images.

• Docker Hub (provided by Docker Inc.)
• Quay.io (part of CoreOS) - Secure hosting for private Docker repositories
• Reesd - Private Docker repositories and redundant storage service by @noteed

Hosting for containers

• Orchard (part of Docker Inc) - Get a Docker host in the cloud, instantly.
• StackDock - Docker hosting on blazing fast dedicated infrastructure
• Tutum - Simple hosting for your Docker containers.
• Giant Swarm - Simple microservice infrastructure. Deploy your containers in seconds.
• Triton - Elastic container-native infrastructure by Joyent.
• Amazon ECS - A management service on EC2 that supports Docker containers.
• Google Container Engine - Docker containers on Google Cloud Computing powered by Kubernetes.
• IBM Bluemix - Run Docker containers in a hosted cloud environment on IBM Bluemix.

Reverse Proxy

• nginx-proxy - Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen by @jwilder
• h2o-proxy - Automated H2O reverse proxy for Docker containers. An alternative jwilder/nginx-proxy by @zchee
• docker-proxy - Transparent proxy for docker containers, run in a docker container. By @silarsis
• muguet - DNS Server & Reverse proxy for Docker environments. By @mattallty

Web Interface

• Docker Registry Web (A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration) by @atc-
• DockerUI (DockerUI is a web interface to interact with the Remote API.) by @crosbymichael
• DockerBoard (Simple dashboards, visualizations, managements for your dockers.) by @dockerboard
• Portus (Authorization service and frontend for Docker registry (v2)) by @SUSE

Local Container Manager

• Fig (Fast, isolated development environments using Docker) -- http://www.fig.sh --> Fig has been replaced by Docker Compose, and is now deprecated. The new documentation is on the Docker website.
• Shutit (a tool for building and maintaining complex Docker deployments) by @ianmiell
• FuGu (a docker run wrapper without orchestration) by @mattes
• Boot2Docker (docker for OSX and Windows) -- http://boot2docker.io/
• docker-vm (A simple and transparent alternative to boot2docker (backed by Vagrant)) by @shyiko
• Vessel (Vessel automates the setup & use of dockerized development environments) by @awvessel
• subuser (subuser makes it easy to securely and portably run graphical desktop applications in Docker)
• OctoHost (Simple web focused Docker based mini-PaaS server. git push to deploy your websites as needed) by @octohost
• Dokku (Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash) by @progrium
• Ansible - manage docker containers
• Vagrant - Docker provider a good starting point is vagrant-docker-example by @bubenkoff
• Dray An engine for managing the execution of container-based workflows. http://Dray.it by @CenturyLinkLabs
• percheron (Organise your Docker containers with muscle and intelligence) by @ashmckenzie
• Dusty Managed Docker development environments on OS X

Useful Images

• Official Images from Docker Hub
• Base Image by @phusion
• Busybox (with either buildroot or Ubuntu's busybox-static) by @jpetazzo
• Busybox (with opkg) by @progrium [@deprecated use docker-alpine instead]
• OpenWRT by @zoobab
• Phusion Docker Hub Account
• passenger-docker (Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps) by @phusion
• docker-alpine (A super small Docker base image (5MB) using Alpine Linux) by @gliderlabs
• docker-fluentd (the Container to Log Other Containers' Logs) by @kiyoto
• chaperone-docker (A set of images using the Chaperone process manager, including a lean Alpine image, LAMP, LEMP, and bare-bones base kits.)

Dockerfile

• Dockerfile Project : Trusted Automated Docker Builds. Dockerfile Project maintains a central repository of Dockerfile for various popular open source software services runnable on a Docker container.
• Collection of Dockerfiles by @crosbymichael
• Dockerfile Example by @komljen
• Dockerfile Example 2 by @kstaken
• Dockerfile @jfrazelle by @jfrazelle MUST SEE for a fully containerized desktop!

Storing Images

• Docker Registry (Registry server for Docker (hosting/delivering of repositories and images)) deprecated
• Docker Registry v2 (The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content)
• Rescoyl (Private Docker registry) by @noteed

Monitoring

• Axibase Time-Series Database (Long-term retention of container statistics and built-in dashboards for Docker. Collected with native Google cAdvisor storage driver.)
• cAdvisor (Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. created by @Google
• Dockerana (packaged version of Graphite and Grafana, specifically targeted at metrics from Docker.)
• Docker-mon (Console-based Docker monitoring) by @icecrime
• InfluxDB, cAdvisor, Grafana (InfluxDB Time series DB in combination with Grafana and cAdvisor) by @vegasbrianc
• Prometheus (Open-source service monitoring system and time series database)
• Seagull (Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon.) by @tobegit3hub
• Sysdig: An open source troubleshooting tool that provides a rich set of real-time, system-level information. It has container-specific features and is very useful in Docker environments.
• Zabbix Docker module: Zabbix module that provides discovery of running containers, CPU/memory/blk IO/net container metrics. Systemd Docker and LXC execution driver is also supported. It's a dynamically linked shared object library, so its performance is (~10x) better, than any script solution.
• SPM for Docker Monitoring of host and container metrics, Docker events and logs. Automatic log parser. Anomaly Detection and alerting for metrics and logs. @sematext

Networking

• Weave (The Docker network) -- Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts.

Logging

• LogJam (Logjam is a log forwarder designed to listen on a local port, receive log entries over UDP, and forward these messages on to a log collecton server (such as logstash).) by @gocardless
• Docker-Fluentd: (Docker container to Log Other Containers' Logs. One can aggregate the logs of Docker containers running on the same host using Fluentd.) by @kiyoto
• Logspout (Log routing for Docker container logs) by @gliderlabs
• SPM for Docker Monitoring of Metrics, Events and Logs implemented in Node.js. Integrated logagent-js to detect and parse various log formats. @sematext

Deployment and Infrastructure

• Centurion: Centurion is a mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. It takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings. By @newrelic
• Clocker: Clocker creates and manages a Docker cloud infrastructure. Clocker supports single-click deployments and runtime management of multi-node applications that run as containers distributed across multiple hosts. It leverages Weave for networking and [Brooklyn][boorklyn] for application blueprints. By @brooklyncentral
• Cloud 66 - Full-stack hosted container management as a service
• Docket: Custom docker registry that allows for lightning fast deploys through bittorrent by @netvarun
• Longshoreman: Longshoreman automates application deployment using Docker. Just create a Docker repository (or use a service), configure the cluster using AWS or Digital Ocean (or whatever you like) and deploy applications using a Heroku-like CLI tool. By longshoreman

PaaS

• Dokku (Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash) by @progrium
• Tsuru (Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.) -- https://tsuru.io/
• Flynn (A next generation open source platform as a service) -- https://flynn.io/
• Deis (Your PaaS, your rules) -- http://deis.io/

Remote Container Manager / Orchestration

• Kontena (Application Containers for Masses) -- http://kontena.io
• Kubernetes (Open source orchestration system for Docker containers by Google) -- http://kubernetes.io
• Shipyard (Composable Docker Management) -- http://shipyard-project.com/
• Panamax (Docker Management for Humans) -- http://panamax.io/
• Gaudi (Gaudi allows to share multi-component applications, based on Docker, Go, and YAM) -- http://gaudi.io/ project discontinued.
• CoreOS (Linux for Massive Server Deployments) -- https://coreos.com/
• Rancher (Portable AWS-style infrastructure service for Docker) -- http://www.rancher.io/
• dokku-alt (Dokku fork with Dockerfile support, database plugins, ACL and more)
• Docker container on Mesos (Docker plus Mesosphere provides an easy way to automate and scale deployment of containers in a production environment)
• Marathon (Marathon is a private PaaS built on Mesos. It automatically handles hardware or software failures and ensures that an app is "always on")
• Serf (Service orchestration and management tool) by @hashicorp
• Flocker (Flocker is a data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool) by @ClusterHQ
• Decking: (Decking aims to simplify the creation, organsation and running of clusters of Docker containers in a way which is familiar to developers)
• Maestro (Maestro provides the ability to easily launch, orchestrate and manage mulitiple Docker containers as single unit) by @tascanini
• Citadel (Citadel is a toolkit for scheduling containers on a Docker cluster)
• CloudSlang (CloudSlang is a workflow engine to create Docker process automation)
• autodock (Daemon for Docker Automation) by @prologic
• blimp Uses Docker Machine to easily move a container from one Docker host to another, show containers running against all of your hosts, replicate a container across multiple hosts and more. By @defermat and @schvin

Security

• docker-bench-security script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production. By @docker
• notary a server and a client for running and interacting with trusted collections. By @docker

Service Discovery

• docker-consul by @progrium
• etcd: A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery by @coreOS
• Docker Grand Ambassador This is a fully dynamic docker link ambassador. + Article by @cpuguy83
• confd: Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
• proxy: lightweight nginx based load balancer self using service discovery provided by registrator. by @factorish

Slides

• Docker Slideshare Account
• Docker Security with @jpetazzo

Videos

Main Account

• Docker Youtube Account
• CenturyLink Labs Docker Interviews
• YLD Event Conference about containers!!! @YLDio

Useful videos

• Docker for Developers (54:26) by @jpetazzo <== Good introduction, context, demo
• SysAdminCasts: Introduction to Docker (15:49)
• Orchestrating Docker containers in production using Fig (7:11)
• Development Environments with Fig by Aanand Prasad (17:58)
• Docker in Production by @jpetazzo (36:05)
• Docker: How to Use Your Own Private Registry (15:01)
• Contributing to Docker by Andrew "Tianon" Page (InfoSiftr) (34:31)
• Performance Analysis of Docker - Jeremy Eder (1:36:58)
• Docker and SELinux by Daniel Walsh from Red Hat (40:23)
• Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and EC2 by Michael Bryzek (Gilt) (42:04)
• Ansible and Docker HP (32:38)
• Run Any App on Mesos on Any Infrastructure Using Docker (17:44)
• Extending Docker with Plugins (15:21)
• Logging on Docker: What You Need to Know (51:27)
• Container Hacks and Fun Images by @jfrazelle @ DockerCon 2015 (MUST WATCH VIDEO: 38:50)

Interesting Twitter Accounts

• Docker
• Century Link Labs
• Flux7Labs
• TutumCloud
• Project Atomic
• Openshift By Red Hat
• YLD

People

• Solomon Hykes Founder of Docker
• Gabriel Monroy Creator of Deis
• Jérôme Petazzoni Docker Developer
• Michael Crosby Docker Developer
• James Turnbull Author of Docker Book
• Jeff Lindsay Design-minded software architect
• Jessie Frazelle Work @docker and uses full containerized desktop, lots of fun.