Linux Containers rely on control groups which not only track groups of processes, but also expose a lot of metrics about CPU, memory, and block I/O usage. We will see how to access those metrics, and how to obtain network usage metrics as well. This is relevant for...
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Docker can now run within Docker
One of the (many!) features of Docker 0.6 is the new "privileged" mode for containers. It allows you to run some containers with (almost) all the capabilities of their host machine, regarding kernel features and device access. Among the (many!) possibilities of the...
How to use your own Registry
One of the things that makes Docker so useful is how easy it is to pull ready-to-use images from a central location, Docker's Central Registry. It is just as easy to push your own image (or collection of tagged images as a repository) to the same...