Thorsten Hans
Tales and stories about Cloud-Native computing, Serverless, Containers, Azure and Kubernetes
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WebAssembly and Containers with Docker Desktop - Hello World & Beyond
Learn how to run Wasm workloads in Docker Desktop and how to orchestrate distributed architectures using containers and Wasm.
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How to build multi-arch Docker Images with ease
This article explains how to build Docker Images for multiple architectures using Docker and buildx.
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Docker SBOM - or how to dive into shift-left security
Se how to dive into shift-left security by creating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) straight from Docker CLI and integrate with vulnerability scanners
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How to lint Docker images with Dockle
Learn how to lint your Docker images with Dockle to secure and harden your Docker images and adopt best practices for building Docker images
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Check if your application is running in a Docker container
See how to check if your application runs inside of a Docker container or not. This post shows how to do it with no 3rd party deps. Samples in Go and Rust
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Read-only filesystems in Docker and Kubernetes
Learn how to make your filesystems in containers read-only to minimize the attack surface and create controlled exceptions using tmpfs and ephemeral volumes.
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Send a Microsoft Teams message when new OCI artifacts appear in Azure Container Registry
This article demonstrates how to get instant feedback when a new Docker Image is published to Azure Container Registry by sending messages to Microsoft Teams.
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Determine the size of Docker image layers
Check how big the layers of any Docker image actually are. Great for investigating, refactoring, and troubleshooting
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How to build smaller and secure Docker Images for .NET
This article explains how to harden Docker images to remove known vulnerabilities and reduces the final size of Docker images. Start here to make your Docker images secure and small.
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Run containers in Azure Container Instances straight from Docker CLI
Latest Docker CLI allows you to run your containers directly in Azure Container Instances (ACI). This article guides you through the setup, and explains all nitty gritty details.
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Scan Docker images for vulnerabilities with Docker CLI and Snyk
Harden Docker images and eliminate vulnerabilities before pushing your images to a registry. Docker scan and Snyk bring professional scanning capabilities straight to your Docker CLI
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Container Metrics With CTOP
Get Docker container metrics with ctop. Get direct access to log streams and fundamental container interactions. Get super efficient using ctop and its keybindings
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Docker Container CPU Limits Explained
Limit CPU capacity per Docker container. Assign containers to dedicated CPUs. Balance available CPU capacity by priority to Docker containers. Control the Docker container CPU limits now.
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Docker Container Memory Limits Explained
Specifying Docker container memory limits is essential to keep your local machine fast and healthy. This post shows how to set memory and swap limits for Docker Containers.
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How To Run Commands In Stopped Docker Containers
Executing a command in a running Docker container is a common task. But what about executing commands in a stopped container? Learn how to promote your stopped container as a temporary image to run the desired command.
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ACR Unleashed – Use ACR As Registry For Helm Charts
Use ACR as Helm chart registry. Push, pull and install Helm charts from Azure Container Registry. Learn what OCI means and why you should start using Helm 3 now
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ACR Unleashed – Image Scanning With Azure Security Center
Integrate ACR with Azure Security Center. Find vulnerabilities in Docker Images. Scan every Docker Image and get reports in Azure Security Center
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ACR Unleashed – Tasks
Leverage ACR tasks to create Docker Image automatically. Start small with Quick Tasks, grow by adding different Triggers and master Multi-Step Tasks by example
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ACR Unleashed – Webhooks
Connect any external service to Azure Container Registry using ACR webhooks. Learn which ACR webhooks exist and how to use them
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Docker on Windows - Fix Time Synchronization Issue
Are your Docker containers on Windows behind a couple of hours or even days? Are they displaying or working with a wrong time/date? Read why this happens and how to fix it.
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ACR Unleashed – Integrate ACR And Azure Monitor
Get ACR metricts with Azure Monitor. Configure individual alrets and notifications. Integrate ACR and Azure Monitor with Log Analytics Workspaces now. Start now and get deep insights
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ACR Unleashed – Authentication, Identity Access Management And Content-Trust
Deep Dive Authentication and Authorization for Azure Container Registry. Guide to understand and lockdown your ACR instances.
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ACR Unleashed – ACR Up And Running with Geo Replication
Setup Azure Container Registry according to best practices. Configure ACR geo replication for high availability. The 1st of a 7 part series about ACR
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Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure Container Services
Learn how to integrate Azure Key Vault and Azure Container Services. This article guides you through everything you need, in order to query Key Vault from an ASP.NET Core App running in a Pod on Kubernetes
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Deploy Azure Functions to Kubernetes and scale them automatically
Learn how to take the official Azure Functions runtime and deploy it as Docker container to a Kubernetes cluster and by adding horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) you can handle almost any load automatically.