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This list is not exhaustive (nor is it meant to be) but can probably help you get up and running faster.

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• Useful Articles
• Main Resources
• General Articles
• Good Tips
• Optimizing Images
• Service Discovery
• Security
• Performances
• Other
• Books
• Dev
  • Continous Integration / Continous Delivery
  • Hosting for repositories (registries)
  • Hosting for containers
  • Dev Tools
  • Useful Images
  • Storing Images
  • Running Containers
  • Networking
  • Logging
  • Service Discovery
• Slides
• Videos
  • Main Account
  • Useful videos
• Interesting Twitter Accounts

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Useful Articles

Main Resources

• Docker Weekly Huge resource
• Century Links Labs
• Valuable Docker Links Very complete
• Docker Ecosystem (Mind Map) <--- MUST SEE
• Blog of @jpetazzo
• Blog of @progrium
• Blog of @jwilder
• Digital Ocean Community

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

Good Tips

• 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.

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)

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

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

Other

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

Books

• Docker Book by James Turnbul (@kartar)

Dev

• Docker
• Docker Images
• Docker Cheat Sheet by @wsargent

Continous Integration / Continous Delivery

• Drone - https://drone.io/

Hosting for repositories (registries)

• 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 (Paying Services $)

• 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.

Dev Tools

• Fig (Fast, isolated development environments using Docker) -- http://www.fig.sh
• Shutit (a tool for building and maintaining complex Docker deployments) by @ianmiell
• FuGu (a docker run wrapper without orchestration) by @mattes
• GoSu ("run this specific application as this specific user and get out of the pipeline" -- entrypoint script tool) by @tianon
• Sandstorm (Personal Cloud Sandbox /!\ uses LXC, not docker, but it's so nice) -- https://sandstorm.io/
• 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
• Boot2Docker (docker for OSX and Windows) -- http://boot2docker.io/
• OctoHost (Simple web focused Docker based mini-PaaS server. git push to deploy your websites as needed) by @octohost

Useful Images

• Base Image by @phusion
• Busybox (with either buildroot or Ubuntu's busybox-static) by @jpetazzo
• Busybox (with opkg) by @progrium
• DockerFile Example by @komljen
• OpenWRT by @zoobab
• Phusion Docker Hub Account

Storing Images

• Docker Registry (Registry server for Docker (hosting/delivering of repositories and images))
• Docker Registry Web (A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration) by @atc-

Running Containers / Orchestration

• Shipyard (Composable Docker Management) -- http://shipyard-project.com/
• Panamax (Docker Management for Humans) -- http://panamax.io/
• Flynn (A next generation open source platform as a service (PaaS)) -- https://flynn.io/
• Deis (Your PaaS, your rules) -- http://deis.io/
• Gaudi (Gaudi allows to share multi-component applications, based on Docker, Go, and YAM) -- http://gaudi.io/
• CoreOS (Linux for Massive Server Deployments) -- https://coreos.com/
• Dokku (Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash) by @progrium
  • dokku-alt (Dokku fork with Dockerfile support, database plugins, ACL and more)
• cAdvisor (Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers)
• Ansible - manage docker containers
• Launch 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".)
• SerfService orchestration and management tool. by @hashicorp

Networking

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

Logging

• LogJam

Service Discovery

• docker-consul by @progrium
• etcd: A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery
• Docker Grand Ambassador This is a fully dynamic docker link ambassador. + Article

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

• 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)

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