DAdavexunit·Nov 18, 2015
Docker Compose depends on a bundled copy of OpenSSL that has been insecure since June: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601
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14 sourcesNB: I'm one of the founders of the Kubernetes project
I'd recommend anyone trying to install Kubernetes check out: https://get.k8s.io/
Or the single node Docker based instructions:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/ge...
Or boot2k8s:
https://github.com/skippbox/boot2k8s
Or kubernetes on OS X:
https://github.com/rimusz/coreos-osx-gui-kubernetes-cluster
Or of course the "as a service" versions like Google Container Engine, CoreOS Tectonic, etc.
We're definitely also working on simplifying the install instructions.
I'd also like to expand a little on some of the features that differentiate Swarm from Kuberentes, namely:
* Secrets
* Replicated sets of containers
* Rolling update from one version of code to the next
* AutoScaling (Kubernetes 1.1, in Release Candidate now)
* HTTP load balancing for autosc
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* Load balancing for sets of objects (e.g. Frontend)
* Service discovery of those replicated sets (Swarm has discovery for individual containers, but no concept of Service)
In general, our goal is to build a system that makes distributed system construction easier.
I would also refer people to the discussion in https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1899#issuecomment-1... as well as https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/8859 on why we feel that the Node-based Docker API is problematic for a cluster level API.
It's Python.
https://github.com/docker/compose
Is this the repository or is there another one?
In EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware SchedulingThanks a lot. I wonder why this is not mentioned in the changelog :)
Regarding the `docker-compose` issue, it's described here https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1723 . Aanand Prasad has a better PR in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1754 (merged).
In Docker 1.8 releasedI started looking at Docker during vacation last week. I had a slightly outdated copy of Boot2Docker that didn't play well with VirtualBox 5.0. With limited bandwidth, I downloaded the docker-machine executable rather than the whole Boot2Docker package. Worked fine, and I was able to set up a variety of containers.
When I got back to work this week, I started setting some of this up on my work Mac, and found a release candidate for the Docker Toolbox. It looks like it's the docker, docker-machine, and docker-compose executables plus the Kitematic GUI (haven't tried that yet). Looks like a decent package.
Grumpy, off-topic digression after a week with limited Internet: please supply offline docs (Unreal), don't put a git clone command in the configure script to build them (Rust), don't require an external crate in a tutorial (random n
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umber generator for Rust), don't put a link to a CDN in your offline docs (Leap Motion SDK), don't require activation after a 2 GB download (Unity Personal). I did luck out and find a WebSocket library in the Go tutorial, which I used to grab JSON from the Leap to load into MongoDB (in a Docker container).
Grumpy, mostly on-topic digression: docker-compose doesn't work on my work Mac, and no one seems to know how to fix it:
https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/271
Haven't yet managed to rebuild it locally as suggested.
Edit: some observations after installing Docker Toolbox.
Kitematic is an Electron app (complete with a Toggle DevTools menu that covers the window with a web dev console). It doesn't tell you what it's doing, but docker-machine shows that it created a machine named default using the VirtualBox driver with the default settings.
Opening the Docker Quickstart Terminal stopped (and deleted?) the machine that Kitematic made and started a new one with the same name and settings.
I think I'd be just as happy with only the docker and docker-machine executables.
Docker hosts pre-built images that have known exploits in them. They also bundle insecure versions of libraries with their software: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601
In Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?Docker is a cute little tool that gives people who aren't that great at Linux the illusion that they know what they're doing. Throw in the use of some "Container" semantics and people become convinced it's that easy (and secure) to abstract away the containers from the kernel.
But it's not, at least in my experience; not to mention that as of now, anything running Docker in production (probably a bad idea) is wide open to the OpenSSL security flaw in versions of 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, despite the knowledge of this issue being out there for at least a few days.
Docker's currently "open" issue on github: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601
Other references: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2015-July... http://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/04/14/as-a-goat-im-...
In Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?Besides just actually running software, I also find it really neat when projects use docker to build their entire application. It provides an effective means of documenting all of your dependencies and making reproducible builds.
Take the docker-compose for example. You can just check the code out, run a single script that builds the project for your environment and everything is pretty much self contained in the dockerfile (https://github.com/docker/compose/blob/master/Dockerfile). You don't have to clog up your host computer with deps and you get an executable plopped into an output bin folder.
Additionally, the steps in the dockerfile get cached so subsequent builds are really fast.
In Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases for using it?Oh cool, another change to fig/docker-compose that doesn't include the most requested feature: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/495
As the person who wrote the PR for its solution and have been waiting for it to get merged for months, this is super, super frustrating.
If you guys don't want to put the logic in, reject the PR and close the issue as won't fix. Quit stringing the community along.
In Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows ClientI've got a bone to pick with the new Docker Compose.
Take a look at this issue: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/495
Back in January I went through the effort of outlining a solution that was approved by the maintainers before implementing it. After I provided a PR, I responded to revision requests by the maintainers, and still haven't seen this change go into the project.
It's a simple change. If this feature isn't the architectural direction Docker wants, they need to close the issue and reject the pull request, instead of changing the project over and over again so that I have to maintain a PR that's over three months old.
Very uncool.
In Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows ClientI started with Don Libes' classic book on Tcl/Expect[1] and am moving on to the 3rd edition of Clif Flynt's book[2].
Someone in #tcl on Freenode suggested that this set of essays would be a good resource for exploring some of the new/er features in Tcl.
I'm experimenting with using Tcl as a basis for rapid prototyping and testing[4] of services and service compositions built with docker and docker-compose[5].
It would be awesome if O'Reilly would consider making Exploring Expect[1] an Open Book[3] – it's an "oldie but goodie"!
[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565920903.do
[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780123847171.do
[3] http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
[4] http://caiusproject.com/
[5] https://github.com/docker/compose
In Topics in Tcl ProgrammingDocker Compose (aka fig) Released
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