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docker / for-linux

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Docker Engine for Linux

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19Mentions
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777GitHub stars
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Docker Engine for Linux

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-07-11 15:57:43 UTC to 2025-09-09 15:41:52 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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> v29.0 will have support for nftables. It'll be marked as experimental in the first few releases to allow us to change anything without worrying about backward compatibility. It would've been nice to at least link to the EPIC[1] to provide some kind of evidence that it is actually been worked on. Sorry to be a bit snarky, but this has been a known issue for 9 years now[2,3,4] with no development despite claims to the contrary by Docker Inc (Mirantis now, I guess?). Out of interest, is this being merged with libnetwork or is being implemented separately (a quick look gave me the impression it was being implemented separately but libnetwork was re-merged to Docker a while ago). Also I guess your comment in [5] is outdated and it will actually be in v29? [1]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/49634 [2]: https://github.com/moby/libnetwork/
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In Docker Considered Harmful (2025)
According to comparitech[1] it is Yet Another Elastic database exposed. I do wonder a bit how the people at Elastic continues to defend not having authentication enforced by default. As of today, going to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... and following their guide for a self hosted ES instance is probably the fastest way to have a data breach. Especially if you had a firewall like ufw in place and relied on it to not expose everything (because of dockers continued insistence on bypassing it [2]). [1] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/thai-t... [2] https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/690
In Details of some 100M visitors to Thailand exposed online
figassis·Feb 11, 2020Submission

Ask HN: Is Docker to blame for recent security breaches?

I'm assuming a lot here, but I believe many recent data breaches are due to some company leaving their servers wide open. I'm assuming a lot here, but its reasonable that most deployments today are containerized, and if not Kubernetes, they're usually docker. Are most developers aware that "ufw default deny incoming" does not work unless using host networking, or unless we modify the docker daemon or IP tables directly? Also, with the simplicity of ufw, do folks take the time to learn how to work with ip tables? I was bitten by this twice when hosting small dev stuff like mongodb, redis and nfs - often accessed in trusted networks without authentication - where after locking down ufw I'd get a notice from the cloud provider (DO, Hetzner) a few days later telling me which port I had open. After debugging and ending up here (https://github.
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com/docker/for-linux/issues/690). First time I made a mental note. Second time I finally wrote it down. Its really not obvious. If you host on your own infrastructure, or AWS, I don't think you get a notice, so docker-compose up can be really dangerous. I guess I would like your comments on whether this is a probable cause of many breaches and whether there is some responsibility (technical, not legal) on docker to properly document this behavior and probably fix.
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Docker has not built support for cgroups v2 - which has been available in linux for 3 years. https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/654 in order to force this issue, Fedora has made cgroups v2 as default and mandatory in the new upcoming Fedora 31 causing docker to fail to run. https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/665 Podman (and other docker equivalents) have supported cgroups v2 for years. I suspect that k8s will move away from docker to recommending one of the alternatives pretty soon.
In The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes

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