My personal blog about the Cloud, Docker, Devops, and other random tech.

Sep 30, 2018

Kubernetes is Eating the Enterprise

Kubernetes has been gaining steam since it was open sourced in 2014. Containers have been on the rise within the enterprise of late. While many startups and engineering focused organizations have been using Kubernetes for a long time, (maybe even since the beginning)…

Alex Rhea

Jan 20, 2017

Building a Docker Amazon Machine Image with Packer

Amazon Machine Images (AMI) are the underpinnings of any deployment to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS Marketplace contains thousands of great images to get started. However, for most deployments, these images are just a starting place for…

Alex Rhea

Jan 11, 2017

Unlock Docker Storage with RexRay on AWS

One of the hardest problems in any Docker cluster deployment (Swarm, Kubernetes, etc.) is unlocking storage for the host and exposing it to the entire cluster. For example, if you are running PostgreSQL on a node within a cluster and that node fails, or the…

Alex Rhea

Dec 22, 2016

Docker Sidecar Logging

Logging with Docker can be tricky, and often times there are constraints around where logs can be sent. Especially in an enterprise environment, popular logging providers may not be a possibility. Not to mention, configuring logging at the daemon level isn’t supported by all of the Docker…

Alex Rhea

Dec 22, 2016

Docker Universal Control Plane — Service Discovery

Service Discovery, it remains one of the problems inside Docker’s Universal Control Plane. Service Discovery is the process by which randomly generated ports are mapped to domain names at a proxy or load balancer layer. Often times…

Alex Rhea

Dec 22, 2016

#DockerCon 2016 — Enterprise Round Up

Another successful year at DockerCon for Docker and the enterprise. Docker is making large investments to make the platform easier to setup, more secure, and simpler to manage. A lot of the benefits for the enterprise are rooted in the open source project. Day 1…