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Docker Part 1: Running Containers

Published on September 26, 2015

Docker is a containerization technology that’s been getting quite a bit of attention over the last year or two. It offers a more lightweight, flexible and repeatable alternative to creating and running full Virtual Machines (VMs). In this, the first in a series of posts on Docker, I’ll look at how to run an application inside of a pre-built container image. In this series, I’ll look at:

  1. Running Containers (this post);
  2. Building Images: How to create a new container image, customized to your requirements;
  3. Disposable Containers: Using containers to run a short-lived job rather than a long-lived service;
  4. Composing an Environment Stack: Creating an environment composed of multiple linked containers.
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Resizing a virtual hard disk

Published on May 2, 2010

No matter what size hard disk you have, sooner or later you’ll find it’s too small. This is just as true for virtual hard disks as it is for physical ones. One of the benefits of virtialization is that you can change your ‘hardware’ setup on a whim. Want an extra gigabyte of memory? No problem, just assign it in your virtual machine config. So long as your host machine has capacity and the guest O/S supports it, this is easy to do.

Frustratingly though, none of the main VM software vendors (VMWare, Microsoft Virtual PC / Server and Sun VirtualBox) offer a way to resize a disk from the standard user interface. It is possible, but it takes a little fiddling to get it to work.

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