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A collection of docker online resources.

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Main Resources

Books

• The Docker Book
• Orchestrating Docker
• Docker in Action (Early Access Edition)
• Docker in Practice (Early Access Edition)
• Docker Cookbook by Neependra Khare (@neependra)
• Docker Cookbook by Sébastien Goasguen (@sebgoa) (Early Access Edition)
• Docker Up & Running
• Using Docker (Early Access Edition)
• Docker for Java Developers
• Docker in Practice, Second Edition

Websites

• Official Documents
• Docker Source Code
• Dockerhub
• Coreos Official Documents
• Hackr.io's Curated Docker Resources

Documents

• Docker Cheat Sheet
• Docker Guidebook
• The Docker Ecosystem

Archives

• awesome-docker
• Docker Weekly Archives
• Valuable Docker Links
• Docker Ecosystem
• Digital Ocean Community
• Docker news

Community Blogs

• Official Blogs
• Coreos Official Blogs
• Century Links Labs
• Tutum Blog
• Weave Blog
• Odd Bits
• Project Atomic
• Container Solutions

Personal Blogs

• jpetazzo
• Jeff Lindsay
• Jason Wilder
• Michael Crosby
• Matt Bajor
• Scott's Weblog
• Luis Elizondo
• zwischenzugs
• Musings of Matt Williams

Videos

• Docker Tutorial
• Introduction to Docker
• Docker channel
• Docker 101 Tutorial
• Docker at Spotify
• Docker Clustering on Mesos with Marathon

Related Projects

Core

• containerd

OS

• Coreos (Linux for Massive Server Deployments)
• Atomic (A platform optimized for Linux containers)
• Rancheio (Simple, elegant tools for managing Docker in production)
• Snappy (A new, transactionally updated Ubuntu for clouds and devices)
• Photon
• ClearLinux (The Clear Linux™ Project for Intel® Architecture is a project that is building a Linux OS distribution for various cloud use cases)
• Mirage OS (Unikernel)

Virtual Machine

• boot2docker (Lightweight Linux for Docker)
• dvm (An on demand Docker virtual machine)

Competitors

• rocket (App Container runtime)
• dockerlite (Lightweight virtualization system based on LXC and BTRFS)
• lmctfy (lmctfy is the open source version of Google’s container stack, which provides Linux application containers.)
• OpenVZ
• Hyper (Hyper = Hypervisor + Kernel + Docker Image)
• bocker (Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash)
• lxd (Daemon based on liblxc offering a REST API to manage containers )

Management Tools

• kubernetes (Container Cluster Manager)
• shipyard (Composable Docker Management)
• swarm (A Docker-native clustering system)
• citadel (A toolkit for building a distributed docker cluster)
• docker-cluster (Cluster support for Docker, using the remote API)
• compose (Define and run complex applications using Docker)
• shutit (Complex and Dynamic Docker Builds Made Simple)
• maestro (Container orchestration for Docker environments)
• decking (A Docker helper to create, manage and run clusters of containers)
• flocker (Easily manage Docker containers & their data)
• serf (Service orchestration and management tool)
• marathon (Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale)
• gaudi (Gaudi allows to share multi-component applications, based on Docker, Go, and YAML)
• panamax (Docker management for humans)
• clocker (Brooklyn managed Docker containers)
• [fleet] (https://github.com/coreos/fleet) (A Distributed init System)
• Meteor(Clustering solution for Meteor with load balancing and service discovery)
• helios (Docker container orchestration platform)
• maestro-ng (Orchestration of Docker-based, multi-host environments)
• shipper (Fabric for docker containers)
• origin (OpenShift 3 - build, deploy, and manage your applications with Docker and Kubernetes)
• autodock (The docker container automation tool.)
• blockade (Docker-based utility for testing network failures and partitions in distributed applications,docs)
• rancher (A Platform for Operating Docker in Production.rancher.com)
• rocker-compose (Docker composition tool with idempotency features for deploying apps composed of multiple containers.)
• chronos(Fault tolerant job scheduler for Mesos which handles dependencies and ISO8601 based schedules)

Paas Platforms

• flynn (A next generation open source platform as a service)
• deis (Your PaaS. Your Rules)
• peas (Docker and Ruby based PaaS)
• dawn (Docker-based PaaS in Ruby)
• octohost(Simple web focused Dockerfile based PaaS server)
• dokku (Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash)
• cloudfoundry
• paz (A pluggable in-house service platform with a PaaS-like workflow, built on Docker, CoreOS, Etcd and Fleet)
• armada (Complete solution for development, deployment, configuration and discovery of microservices)
• rainbond (Serverless PaaS , A new generation of easy-to-use cloud management platforms based on kubernetes.)

Caas Platforms

• Docker Datacenter
• Alauda.io

Integration Projects

• openstack-docker (Nova driver and Glance backend to use Docker inside OpenStack)
• Jenkins Cloud Plugin for Docker
• deimos (Mesos containerizer hooks for Docker)
• garether-docker (Puppet module for managing docker)
• systemd-docker (Wrapper for "docker run" to handle systemd quirks)
• docker-ansible (Ansible module for Docker)

Monitoring

• seagull (Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon)
• dockerana (Docker Monitoring with support for Grafana and Graphite)
• docker-mon(Console-based Docker monitoring)
• cadvisor (Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers)
• Prometheus (The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database,see the docker exporter)
• ctop (Top-like interface for container metrics https://bcicen.github.io/ctop/)
• NexClipper - Simple web UI for container monitoring by @Nexcloud

Networking

• weave (The Docker Network)
• wormhole (A smart proxy to connect docker containers.)
• flannel (flannel is an etcd backed network fabric for containers)
• calico-docker(Docker version of Project Calico,Calico can provide networking in a Docker environment)
• libnetwork (networking for containers)

Continuous Integration

• drone (A Continuous Integration platform built on Docker)

Development And Deployment

• tug (Docker development workflow)
• vagga(Vagga is a tool to create development environments)
• longshoreman (Automated deployment with Docker)
• centurion (A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets)
• shutit (Complex and Dynamic Docker Builds Made Simple)
• dockership (dead simple docker deploy tool)
• devstep (Development environments powered by Docker and buildpacks)
• docker-devenv (Docker based development environment)
• dexec (Command line interface for running code with Docker Exec images)

Logging

• logspout (Log routing for Docker container logs)
• logjam (a log shipping tool)

Service Discovery

• skydock (based on DNS)
• Consul (Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration)
• registrator(Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters)
• etcd (A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery)
• docker-grand-ambassador ( fully dynamic docker link ambassador)
• confd (Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul)
• ambassadord (Magic Docker ambassador)
• logcabin (LogCabin is a distributed storage system built on Raft that provides a small amount of highly replicated, consistent storage)

Private Registry

• docket (Custom docker registry that allows for lightning fast deploys through bittorrent)
• docker-registry (Registry server for Docker (hosting/delivering of repositories and images))
• wharf(ContainerOps Open Source Platform)
• distribution (The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content)
• [dogestry] (https://github.com/blake-education/dogestry) (simple docker image storage on s3)
• docker-private-registry (Private Docker Registry)
• speedy (a distributed docker image storage)

UI Tools

• dockerboard (Simple dashboards, visualizations, managements for your dockers)
• Kitematic (Now part of the Docker Toolbox. Available for Mac OS X 10.8+ and Windows 7+ (64-bit) )
• dockerui (A web interface for docker)
• docker-registry-web (A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration)
• Portus (Authorization service and frontend for Docker registry v2)
• panamax-ui (The Web GUI for Panamax)
• seagull (Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon)
• docker-swarm-visualizer(A visualizer for Docker Swarm using the Docker Remote API, Node.JS, and D3)
• portainer ( Simple management ui for docker )
• Swarmpit ( Lightweight Docker Swarm management UI )
• Swirl (A web management tool for Docker, focusing on Swarm cluster)

Storage

• pfs (A git-like distributed file system for a dockerized world)

Volumes

• docker-volumes (Docker Volume Manager)

Security

• subuser (Run programs in linux with selectively restricted permissions)
• TUF (Like the S in HTTPS, a plug-and-play library for securing a software updater)
• container-compliance(Assessing compliance of a container)

Applications

• ferry (define, run, and deploy big data applications on AWS, OpenStack, and your local machine using Docker,ferry.opencore.io)
• codecube (Docker-powered runnable code snippets)
• DUnit (Test code against multiple versions of PHP with the help of docker)
• PHP Stack (Docker- and Shipyard-managed PHP development stack: Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP-FPM, HHVM, Memcached, Redis, and Elasticsearch. Includes an optional Vagrant-managed CoreOS proxy box at your leisure.)
• Django Demo (Demo Django App using Docker)
• dnt (Docker Node Tester)
• dockermail (A secure, minimal-configuration mail server in a docker container.)
• docker-rpm-builder (Build native RPM packages by leveraging docker capabilities)
• tmpnb (Creates temporary Jupyter Notebook servers using Docker containers)
• open-ocr (Run your own OCR-as-a-Service using Tesseract and Docker)
• dray (An engine for managing the execution of container-based workflows)
• kolla (Deploying OpenStack using Kubernetes and Docker)
• docker-desktop (Docker Desktop enables you to create virtual desktops that can be accessed remotely. It comes with Firefox and Libreoffice already installed)
• dockercraft (Docker + Minecraft = Dockercraft)

Images And Dockerfiles

• dockly (DSL and Gem for building ready-to-launch Docker images)
• baseimage-docker (A minimal Ubuntu base image modified for Docker-friendlines)
• busybox (Busybox for Stackbrew)
• busybox (Busybox container with glibc+opkg)
• dockerfile-examples
• passenger-docker (Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps)
• Dockerfile Project
• Dockerfiles(Collection of Dockerfiles)
• docker-desktop (create virtual desktops that can be accessed remotely)
• StealthBox(Share your favorite content remotely without spoiling your home network)
• Machine Learning (Get up and running with machine learning using Docker)
• Gitlab (Dockerized gitlab web server)
• Discourse (A Docker image for Discourse)
• OpenVPN (Recipe to build an OpenVPN image for Docker)
• Wordpress+nginx (A Dockerfile that installs the latest wordpress, nginx and php-fpm.another wordpress image) / another one wordpress
• Nignx-Proxy (Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen)
• docker-squash (Squash docker images to make them smaller)
• Mysql (Docker image to run an out-of-the-box MySQL server)
• CentOS-Dockerfiles (Dockerfiles for various common implementations)
• Redmine (Dockerized redmine app server)
• Spark (Dockerfiles and scripts for Spark and Shark Docker images)
• docker-grafana-graphite (Docker image with StatsD, Graphite, Grafana and a Kamon Dashboard)
• Elasticsearch (ElasticSearch Dockerfile for trusted automated Docker builds)
• docker-alpine (Docker image based on Alpine Linux will help you win at minimalism)
• Hadoop (Hadoop docker image)
• R (R configurations for Docker)
• ASP.NET (Docker image for ASP.NET 5.)
• nmpjs (Docker image for a private npmjs repository)
• Jenkins (Builds a Docker image for Jenkins)
• Postgres (Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres)
• Logstash (Docker image for Logstash 1.4 )
• Harbor (An enterprise-class container registry server based on Docker Distribution)

Containers

• dockize (Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers)
• Supervisor (A Process Control System)
• CFEngine (Process management)
• docker-gen (Generate files from docker container meta-data)
• tini (A tiny but valid init for containers)
• S6 (s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision)

Extensions

• powerstrip (A tool for prototyping Docker extensions)

API Client

• docker-py (Python)
• docker-api (Ruby)
• dockernode (Node.js)
• go-dockerclient (Golang)
• docker-php (PHP)
• dockerclient (Golang)
• docker-java (Java)

Others

• dockersh (A shell which places users into individual docker containers)
• buildstep (Buildstep uses Docker and Buildpacks to build applications like Heroku)
• dind(Docker in Docker)
• building (Build a Docker container for any app using Heroku Buildpacks)
• torrent-docker (realtime boot of remote docker images using bittorrent)
• docker-backup (Tool for backing up docker volume / data containers)
• Docker Support in IntelliJ IDEA 14.1
• dockerception (Docker building dockers - keeping them small)
• docker-gc (Docker garbage collection of containers and images)
• habitus(A Build Flow Tool for Docker)
• ofelia (A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker))

Blog Posts

General

• The Frontend Developer's Guide to Docker
• Docker and Go: why did we decide to write Docker in Go? ( pdf slide)
• How to Use Docker on OS X: The Missing Guide
• 24 random docker tips
• The 5 Most Important Things I’ve Learned From Using Docker
• A Simple Way to Dockerize Applications
• Docker orchestration
• Docker's rise from sleeper to open source king
• Faster Builds with Container-Based Infrastructure and Docker
• Run ARM binaries in your Docker Container using Boot2Docker…
• How to Use Docker on Windows
• Docker on OS X with VMWare Fusion

Docker

About Images

• Docker Image Insecurity
• Building good docker images
• Your docker image might might be broken without you knowing it
• Flat Docker images
• Baseimage-docker, fat containers and "treating containers as VMs"
• Create The Smallest Possible Docker Container
• Creating a Docker image from your code
• Optimizing Docker Images
• Building Docker Images for Static Go Binaries
• Squashing Docker Images
• Building a Multi-Purpose Docker Image
• Docker layers cost
• Deterministic and minimal docker images

About Storage

• Comprehensive Overview of Storage Scalability in Docker
• Resizing Docker containers with the Device Mapper plugin
• Where are Docker images stored?
• Persistent Distributed Filesystems in Docker without NFS or Gluster
• Deep dive into Docker storage drivers

About Volumes

• Understanding Volumes in Docker
• Powerstrip-flocker: Portable volumes using just the Docker CLI

Dockerfiles

• 6 Dockerfile Tips from the Official Images
• Writing Dockerfile
• How to Optimize Your Dockerfile
• Dockerfile Best Practices

About Containers

• What is the difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT in a Dockerfile?
• Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem
• Data-only container madness
• On-demand activation of Docker containers with systemd
• Docker and S6 – My New Favorite Process Supervisor
• On Docker Container Composition
• Introducing a Super Privileged Container Concept
• Docker Inspect Template Magic
• ‘Piping’ Hot Docker Containers
• Checkpoint and restore Docker container with CRIU

About Security

• Why you don't need to run sshd in your docker containers
• shocker: docker PoC VMM-container breakout
• Containers&Docker: How secure are they?
• Docker and SELinux
• Bringing new security features to Docker
• Docker Secure Deployment Guidelines
• Docker Container Breakout Proof-Of-Concept Exploit
• The dangers of UFW + Docker
• Tuning Docker with the newest security enhancements

Resource Management

• Resource management in Docker

About Networking

• Advanced networking
• DNS And docker containers
• Coupling Docker and Open vSwitch
• Connecting Docker containers on multiple hosts
• Muti-host Docker Network
• Life and Docker networking
• SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead
• Four ways to connect a docker container to a local network

About Monitoring

• Gathering lxc and docker containers metrics
• nsinit: per-container resource monitoring of Docker containers on RHEL/Fedora
• Runtime Metrics
• Monitor Docker Containers with Prometheus

About Private Registry

• Docker Registry Rest API

API

• Docker from a distance - the remote API
• KVM and Docker LXC Benchmarking with OpenStack

Performance

• Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Preview of Docker Benchmarking at Flux7
• Getting Started with Performance Analysis of Docker
• Docker network performances
• Docker Containers: Smaller is not always better

Process Management

• Running systemd within a Docker Container

Think Deeply

• docker is the heroku killer
• boycott docker
• Docker isn't so bad
• Is docker ready for production?
• After Docker:Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure
• Docker’s Killer Feature
• Linux Containers: Parallels, LXC, OpenVZ, Docker and More
• dockerizability is better than dockerized
• Ignore the Hype: 5 Docker Misconceptions Java Developers Should Consider
• Challenges With Randomness In Multi-tenant Linux Container Platforms
• Docker in Production: A History of Failure

Rocket

• App Container and Docker
• App Container Specification
• Why Docker and Coreos'split was predictable
• Of Containers, Dockers, Rockets, and Daemons
• Why CoreOS just fired a Rocket at Docker
• Rocket vs Docker and The Myth of the “Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform
• What is Rocket and How It’s Different Than Docker

Underlying Techniques

LXC

• Exploring LXC Networking
• Linux Containers (from archwiki)

Cgroups

• cgroups (from kernel.org)
• Managing system resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Cgroups (from archwiki)

Systemd

• The systemd for Administrators Blog Series (great series,check the index in here)
• Getting Started with systemd (from coreos)
• Systemd (from archwiki)
• Running Docker Containers with Systemd
• Docker without Docker (slide)

Namespaces

• Namespaces in operation
• Introduction to Linux namespaces – Part 1: UTS / part2 /part3 / part4 /part5

Various Projects

Compose

• Docker Compose
• Announcing Docker Compose

Swarm

• Docker Containers at Scale (Our Take on Docker Swarm)
• Getting Started with docker swarm
• Scaling docker with swarm
• Intro to Docker Swarm: Part 1 - Overview / Part 2 - Configuration Options and Requirements / Part 3 - Example Swarm SOA / Part 4 - Demo
• Creating SSL/TLS Certificates for Docker and Docker Swarm
• Running a Small Docker Swarm Cluster
• Running a Distributed Docker Swarm on AWS (Mar 9, 2016)
• Toward a Production-Ready Docker Swarm Cluster with Consul (Mar 2, 2016)

Mesosphere

• Launching a Docker Container on Mesosphere
• Managing Docker Clusters Using Mesos and Marathon
• Docker on Mesos
• Running Docker Containers on Marathon
• Mesos + Docker Tutorial: How to Build Your Own Framework
• Continuous Delivery with Docker on Mesos in less than a minute – Part 1 / part2
• ArangoDB on Apache Mesos using Marathon and Docker
• TOWARDS DOCKER IN PRODUCTION WITH APACHE MESOS

Kubernetes

• Deploying Kubernetes on CoreOS with Fleet and Flannel
• Running Kubernetes Example on CoreOS, Part 1
• How To Install and Configure Kubernetes on top of a CoreOS Cluster
• Corekube: Running Kubernetes on CoreOS via OpenStack
• Play With Kubernetes Quickly Using Docker

Openstack

• docker
• What is the future of the private cloud world, Mesos or OpenStack?

Azure

• Docker and Microsoft: Integrating Docker with Windows Server and Microsoft Azure

Other Projects

• Chef, Puppet, Heat, Juju, Docker, etc
• Powerstrip: prototype Docker extensions today
• Docker extensions: the new Docker plugins model
• Docker Without Containers: Introducing Pullcontainer --docker and CVFS
• Process Management with CFEngine (CFEngine)
• Introducing flannel: An etcd backed overlay network for containers (flannel)
• Tiny docker operating system (Boot2Docker,RancherOS)
• Deploying Docker applications on YARN via Slider (slide)(YARN)

Usage

Apps

• Dockerizing a Python Web App
• Deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus with Docker
• Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker
• Transparent Squid in a container
• Deploying and migrating a multi-node ElasticSearch-Logstash-Kibana cluster using Docker
• Node With Docker - Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Rails on Docker
• Ad Hoc Log Analysis with Kibana and Docker
• Networking Spark Cluster on Docker with Weave
• Breaking Data Out of the Enterprise
• Using dockeer to build a data acqusition pipeline with kafka and hbase
• How to use MongoDB & NodeJS with Docker
• Wrapping Desktop Apps with Docker
• Deploying RethinkDB applications with Docker using Dokku
• Shipping Node.js Applications with Docker and Codeship
• Elasticsearch, Weave and Docker
• Running libvirtd in a container
• Creating honeypots using Docker

GUI

• Docker Containers on the Desktop
• Running GUI apps with Docker
• Docker desktop: Your desktop over ssh running inside of a docker container

Service Discovery With Docker

• Service Discovery Overview
• Consul Service Discovery with Docker
• Docker Service Discovery Using Etcd and Haproxy
• Simulating service discovery in a development context with Docker and etcd

Development And Deployment And Test

• Docker: Git for deployment
• Eight Docker Development Patterns
• Deploy Java Apps With Docker = Awesome
• Docker for Java Developers: How to sandbox your app in a clean environment
• Using Docker with Github and Jenkins for repeatable deployments
• Creating an ASP.NET vNext Docker Container using Mono
• Move fast and don’t break things! Testing with Jenkins, Ansible and Docker
• Docker and Phoenix: How to Make Your Continuous Integration More Awesome
• Docker in Action - Fitter, Happier, More Productive
• Docker in Action - Development to Delivery / part2 / part3
• ASP.NET 5 development on OS X with Docker
• The decline of Java application servers when using docker containers

Production

• Docker at Lyst
• Docker at Shopify: How we built containers that power over 100,000 online shops
• [Intro to Docker ...and how we use it at writeLaTe