When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed a way ...

In the realm of software development and deployment, Docker has emerged as a revolutionary force, offering a streamlined approach to creating, deploying, and running applications by using containers.

Tom demos table joins, shell scripts for repetitive tasks and using "exec" to run commands inside a container from the host system. In my previous article on running applications on Docker, I deployed ...

Are you tired of configuring, and reconfiguring, and configuring yet again your favorite server applications? I was, but Docker fixed that. Portability makes Docker one of my favorite homelab tools, ...

Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...