2017-12-03: Introducing Docker - Application Containerization & Service Orchestration
For the last few years, Docker , the application containerization technology, has been gaining a lot of attraction from the DevOps community and lately it has made its way to the academia and research community as well. I have been following it since its inception in 2013. For the last couple years, it has become a daily driver for me. At the same time, I have been encouraging my colleagues to use Docker in their research projects. As a result, we are gradually moving away from one virtual machine (VM) per project to a swarm of nodes running containers of various projects and services. If you have accessed MemGator , CarbonDate , Memento Damage , Story Graph or some other WS-DL services lately, you have been served from our Docker deployment. We even have an on-demand PHP/MySQL application deployment system using Docker for the CS418 - Web Programming course . I ( @ibnesayeed ) have been selected as the @Docker Campus Ambassador for Old Dominion University! /cc @ODU @od...