docker – Beginning Of Expression

[TechNggets] Episode 1: Intro to Containers and Self

December 1, 2017 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

Here is the first episode of “Tech Nuggets and Thoughts” In this episode we talk about containers, what they are, how they work, what docker is and when / when not to use docker. To get updates, you can subscribe to the podcast on: Apple iTunes, player.fm, RSS feed. If you have any suggestions, thoughts or recommendations, please feel free to comment below. You can also reach me on podcast’s twitter handle @TechNggets or my personal account @nikhilwanpal. (If the fancy player above does not work, try…

Docker As Application Registry

August 6, 2017 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

Docker As Application Registry Docker is great and solves a lot of problems with deployments. It taught VMs to share the resources, like how VMs taught hardware to share resources! Along with production, I have found that docker can work great as an application registry in a local development environment.By applications I mean software that you install on your OS and launch them with shortcuts and they continue to live and retain state till you uninstall them; not exactly what…

Using Docker and a Private Registry with VPN On Windows

September 5, 2016 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 2 comments

Wasn’t that a very specific title? Docker has a very good documentation and reading that alone is enough for most of the straightforward tasks we might want to do. But as always some practical tasks are not straightforward, hence this blog. What we are going to see here today is how to setup docker toolbox on a Windows machine, make it work even when VPN is connected, make it talk to a private, insecure docker registry (that is why VPN)…