December 7, 2023

The Docker Ecosystem: An Introduction to Common Components

Containerization is the process of distributing and deploying applications in a portable and predictable way. It accomplishes this by packaging components and their dependencies into standardized, isolated, lightweight process environments called containers.  Many organizations are now interested in designing applications and services that can be easily deployed to distributed systems, allowing the system to scale easily and survive machine and application failures.  Docker, a containerization platform developed to simplify and standardize deployment in various environments, was largely instrumental in spurring the adoption of this style of service design and management.  A large amount of software has been created to build on this ecosystem of distributed container management.

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How To Install and Use Docker Compose on Ubuntu 22.04

Docker simplifies the process of managing application processes in containers. While containers are similar to virtual machines in certain ways, they are more lightweight and resource-friendly. This allows developers to break down an application environment into multiple isolated services.For applications depending on several services, orchestrating all the containers to start up, communicate, and shut down together can quickly become unwieldy. Docker Compose is a tool that allows you to run multi-container application environments based on definitions set in a YAML file. It uses service definitions to build fully customizable environments with multiple containers that can share networks and data volumes. In this guide, you’ll demonstrate how to install Docker Compose on an Ubuntu 22.04 server and how to get started using this tool.

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The Docker Ecosystem: An Overview of Containerization

Docker containerization and service-oriented design attempts to solve many of these problems. Applications can be broken up into manageable, functional components, packaged individually with all of their dependencies, and deployed on irregular architecture easily. Scaling and updating components is also simplified. In this guide, we will discuss the benefits of containerization and how Docker helps to solve many of the issues we mentioned above. Docker is the core component in distributed container deployments that provide easy scalability and management.

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How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 22.04

Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in containers. Containers let you run your applications in resource-isolated processes. They’re similar to virtual machines, but containers are more portable, more resource-friendly, and more dependent on the host operating system. In this tutorial, you’ll install and use Docker Community Edition (CE) on Ubuntu 22.04. You’ll install Docker itself, work with containers and images, and push an image to a Docker Repository.

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VS Code for Spring Boot Java Development: Step by Step Guide

This article is a step by step guide to setup and develop Spring Boot applications using Visual Studio Code. I will be building a simple Spring Boot service from scratch using VS Code. I’ll show you what extensions to install and how to use the VS Code features to develop and iterate on your Spring Boot application.

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