Zabbix distributes Docker images for each component. Not only does this mean you can quickly standup the monitoring solution, but upgrades also become a simple matter of trading up images. In this article, I will show how to stand up and then upgrade a zabbix installation using docker-compose.
In earlier versions of Docker, links were used to connect two containers by enabling network access as well as sharing environment variables. This approach is being deprecated in favor of a shared network between the services. And instead of environment propagation, environment values will need to be explicitly added to each service that requires them. … Docker: Using docker-compose and networking to link a Spring Boot app to an external service dependency
Docker Compose gives us the ability to define services, ports, volumes, and networks in a single file. This file provides a convenient and unified view into what would otherwise be a long list of docker commands. In this article, you will run the Spring Boot based spring-music app in a Docker container using docker-compose.
Docker log collection can be done using various methods, one method that is particularly effective is having a dedicated container whose sole purpose is to automatically sense other deployed containers and aggregate their log events. This is the architectural model of logspout, an open-source project that acts as a router for the stdout/stderr logs of other containers. If you do … Docker: logspout for Docker log collection