2016 has been an amazing year for Docker and the container industry. We had 3 major releases of Docker engine this year , and tremendous increase in usage. The community has been following along and contributing amazing Docker resources to help you learn and get hands-on experience. Here’s some of the top read and viewed content for the year:
Releases
Of course releases are always really popular, particularly when they fit requests we had from the community. In particular, we had:
- Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows Beta and GA release blog posts, and the video
- Docker 1.12 Built-in Orchestration release, and the DockerCon keynote where we announced it
- And the release of the Docker for AWS and Azure beta
Windows Containers
When Microsoft made Windows 2016 generally available, people rushed to
- Our release blog to read the news
- Tutorials to find out how to use Windows containers powered by Docker
- The commercial relationship blog post to understand how it all fits together
About Docker
We also provide a lot of information about how to use Docker. In particular, these posts and articles that we shared on social media were the most read:
- Containers are Not VMs by Mike Coleman
- 9 Critical Decisions for Running Docker in Production by James Higginbotham
- A Comparative Study of Docker Engine on Windows Server vs. Linux Platform by Docker Captain Ajeet Singh Raina
- Our White paper – The Definitive Guide To Docker
How to Use Docker
Docker has a wide variety of use cases, articles and videos about how to use it are really popular. In particular, when we share content from our users and Docker Captains, they get a lot of views:
- Getting started with Docker 1.12 and Raspberry Pi by Docker Captain Alex Ellis
- Docker: Making our bioinformatics easier and more reproducible by Jeremy Yoder
- NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Docker by Lorenzo Fontana
- 5 minute guide for getting Docker 1.12.1 running on your Raspberry Pi 3 by Docker Captain Ajeet Singh Raina
- The Docker Cheat Sheet
- Docker for Developers
- Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond
Still hungry for more info? Here’s some more Docker resources:
- Check out Follow all the Captains in one shot with Docker by Docker Captain Alex Ellis
- Docker labs and tutorials on GitHub
- Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn group
- Join the Docker Community Directory and Slack
- And of course, keep following this blog for more exciting info
