Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
I’ve been getting up to speed and playing with Docker recently. At DockerCon EU 2015, one of the sessions gave a walkthrough using Docker ToolBox and Compose. It’s surprisingly easy to deploy an app into a Container and get it up and running. If you haven’t looked at Docker yet, take a look at this …
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WildFly Swarm is an interesting approach to the ‘small is good’ current trend that is ignoring the traditional, overly large Java EE App Servers, and instead deploying self-contained, executable Jars without needing a whole App Server to execute. Rather than requiring the whole Java EE stack, WildFly Swarm lets you chose only the implementations of the …
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I’ve been spending some time working with Docker recently – it’s incredible technology and understandable why it’s getting so much attention for automating reproducible runtimes. Here’s a quick 5 min overview covering an overview in 5 mins by Vincent Batts, who works at Red Hat on Docker and OpenShift:
Trying to run a shell into a running container (docker exec -it containerid bash) using DockerToolbox/docker-machine on Windows 7 gives this error: “cannot enable tty mode on non tty input” (this runs fine on Mac OS X) This is logged as an issue here. As a workaround, prefix the docker command with winpty, so: winpty …