docker-compose

Zabbix: Using Docker Compose to install and upgrade Zabbix

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.

Docker: Installing Docker CE on Ubuntu bionic 18.04

Update Dec 2021: I have written an updated article for installing Docker on focal 20.04 Docker is a container platform that streamlines software delivery and provides isolation, scalability, and efficiency with less overhead than OS level virtualization. These instructions are taken directly from the official Docker for Ubuntu page, but I wanted to reiterate those Docker: Installing Docker CE on Ubuntu bionic 18.04

Docker: Using docker-compose and networking to link a Spring Boot app to an external service dependency

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: Running a Spring Boot based app using docker-compose

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: Installing Docker CE on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04

Docker is a container platform that streamlines software delivery and provides isolation, scalability, and efficiency with less overhead than OS level virtualization. These instructions are taken directly from the official Docker for Ubuntu page, but I wanted to reiterate those tasks essential for installing the Docker Community Edition on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04.