Are you like me and dislike large container images? Checkout this article from learnk8s.io

TL;DR: The base image in your Dockerfile’s FROM statement can be a 10x difference in the size of your images. Bigger images === longer time…

Lifecycle of Docker Container

Nitin Agarwal of on Medium did a great write up of the lifecycle of a docker container. For people just entering the world of containerization…

Jorge Silva’s `9 Common Dockerfile Mistakes`…

Good article if you are getting into container services. 9 Common Dockerfile Mistakes

So youre using Docker in dev, but how do you get deploy?

Asmir Mustafic (@goetas_asmir) did a 10 minute presentation over at NomadPHP on how to deploy your PHP (or really any process) using docker. Deploy Your PHP…

CoreOS; web security and privacy.

Alex Polvi over at CoreOS put out a short, but poignant article about not only why CoreOS was started, but why they care about privacy and…

Docker nginx-proxy round robin…

So we use docker for container services at work. One container that is part of our ‘dev’ tools is an nginx reverse proxy tied to…

Is the argument of ‘application portability’ a valid one for containerization?

Preface: I am a huge supporter of containerized distributed applications. It give me all sorts of nerd good feelings. One of the biggest arguments for…

Out of the box performance: PHP + PDO + MariaDB

Backstory: Another week, another evening at the Pub with some friends and colleges. Somehow or the other we got on the topic of database insert performance…

Another month, another set of continuing education courses.

A corner stone of the IT/Dev career field is this: ‘never stop learning’. I like to expand on it and include ‘When you stop learning,…

When removing an orphans is bad…

So Docker creates containers, when you stop these containers the container still exists it is simply stopped. And then we create more containers…and more containers…and…