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• Three ways to put a proxy cache in front of Docker Hub — registry:2, Nexus, ECR pull-through cache

  Read the Docker Hub rate-limit headers yourself, stand up registry:2 as a pull-through cache and pull the same image three times, then sort out where a Nexus proxy/group repository and an ECR pull-through cache each fit,

  2026-09-10 · 7 min read #docker#registry#nexus#ecr#devops

• Scanning the production image with Trivy — 768 findings, and the real work was three packages and one Dockerfile line

  From a signature-verification bypass in the login library (CVE-2026-27962) to a digest-pinned base image that could never receive OS security fixes. The scanner counting itself, false positives in secret detection, and a

  2026-09-10 · 6 min read #security#cve#trivy#docker#python

• The Generational Shift in Container Infrastructure — What Eleven Projects Left Behind

  Eleven projects that were once standard parts of a container infrastructure and have since been replaced, documented using only official notices and repository archive status as evidence. rkt, dockershim, Classic Swarm,

  2026-08-12 · 10 min read #open-source#kubernetes#container#docker#infrastructure

• How to Read Container Image Vulnerability Scan Results — The Real Way to Turn Hundreds of Criticals Into Zero

  Run an image scanner for the first time and you get thousands of vulnerabilities, a good number of them Critical. Hand that report to the team as is and nothing happens. This post starts from the fact that all a scanner

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #security#container#docker#trivy#kubernetes

• What Actually Differs Between a Container and a VM — namespace, cgroup, and the Bill for Sharing a Kernel

  Starts with why the explanation that a container is a lightweight VM breeds misunderstanding. A container is an ordinary Linux process whose view is masked by namespaces and whose resources are limited by cgroups, and it

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #docker#container#linux-namespace#cgroup#virtualization

• Docker Network Modes and Connection Problems — bridge, host, overlay, and the 127.0.0.1 Trap

  Unpacks the situation where the container is up but nothing can connect, mode by mode. It covers why containers cannot find each other by name on the default bridge and how the embedded DNS on a user-defined network chan

  2026-07-26 · 13 min read #docker#docker-network#iptables#networking#devops

• Shrinking Docker Images — The Truth About Layers, Multi-Stage Builds, and What a Base Image Really Costs

  Start by pinpointing, layer by layer with dive, exactly where a Docker image balloons to 1.9GB. This piece covers why the union filesystem makes RUN rm incapable of removing a single byte from an image, exactly what a mu

  2026-07-26 · 12 min read #docker#dockerfile#multi-stage-build#container#devops

• Mistakes That Keep Repeating in Dockerfiles — Running as root, PID 1, and Secrets Left in the Image

  Works through the Dockerfile problems that pass the build and only blow up in production, starting from their causes. Containers running as root because no USER was set, the latest tag and reproducibility, why ADD should

  2026-07-26 · 12 min read #docker#dockerfile#container-security#pid1#devops

• Why the Docker Build Cache Keeps Breaking — Layer Cache Keys, ARG, and BuildKit Cache Mounts

  Explains, at the level of cache keys, why npm ci runs for five minutes again after you changed a single line of code. It covers the difference between a RUN cache key being the command string and a COPY cache key being a

  2026-07-26 · 11 min read #docker#buildkit#build-cache#ci-cd#devops

• Podman 6.0 — slirp4netns, CNI, and cgroups v1 Removed; macOS's Default Provider Is Now libkrun

  On June 24, 2026, Podman 6.0.0 shipped as its first major release in 27 months since 5.0. Support for slirp4netns, CNI, iptables, cgroups v1, and BoltDB was removed all at once, Intel Mac and Windows 10 support was dropp

  2026-07-17 · 13 min read #container#podman#docker#linux#macos

• From Docker to Podman — the Complete Guide to Switching to a Daemonless Container Engine

  Podman differs from Docker at the level of architectural philosophy: daemonless (fork-exec) operation and rootless by default. Internals (conmon, crun), config file locations and meanings, CDI setup for GPUs, the two way

  2026-07-08 · 8 min read #docker#podman#containers#devops#linux

• Containers Are a Lie — The Kernel Truth Behind cgroups and Namespaces

  There is no container object in the kernel. A tour of the seven namespaces, hands-on cgroup v2 file manipulation, building a mini container with unshare and pivotroot, overlayfs, capabilities, and seccomp — we dissect ea

  2026-06-13 · 17 min read #linux#kernel#container#cgroups#namespaces

• A Deep Dive into apple/container — The Lightweight VM Approach to macOS Containers

  We examine the limits of Docker Desktop and its single shared Linux VM on macOS, then analyze the one-VM-per-container model adopted by apple/container. The post covers the Container Machine feature unveiled at WWDC26, a

  2026-06-12 · 19 min read #apple-container#virtualization#macos#docker#container

• Container Runtimes 2026 Deep Dive - containerd, runc, Podman, CRI-O, Kata, gVisor, Firecracker, Wasm

  A full-stack tour of production container runtimes as of May 2026. We cover containerd (de facto Kubernetes CRI), low-level OCI runtimes runc, crun, and youki, the alternative CRI CRI-O, the rootless/daemonless trio Podm

  2026-05-16 · 16 min read #container-runtime#containerd#runc#podman#cri-o

• Container Runtime Alternatives 2026 Deep Dive - containerd, CRI-O, Podman, runc, gVisor, Kata Containers, youki, WasmEdge, and Firecracker

  The container runtime landscape in 2026 is no longer Docker-centric. Kubernetes removed dockershim in 1.24, and containerd 2.0 and CRI-O 1.31 have become the cluster default. On developer workstations Podman 5 and Docker

  2026-05-16 · 18 min read #english#container-runtime#containerd#cri-o#podman

• Docker Desktop Alternatives 2026 — Podman / OrbStack / Colima / Finch / Rancher Desktop Deep-Dive Comparison ♪ Listenable

  Five years after Docker Desktops August 2021 pricing change, the container tooling landscape has been completely reshaped. In 2026, containerd is the de facto industry-standard runtime, and on top of it sit a constellati

  2026-05-15 · 22 min read #docker#podman#orbstack#colima#finch

• Keycloak Integration Hands-On — Run It with Docker, Configure Realm/Client, Wire Up Spring Boot and Next.js (2025 Hands-On Guide) ♪ Listenable

  Don't build authentication yourself — use Keycloak. This is a follow-along hands-on: run Keycloak 26 with Docker, configure Realm/Client/User/Role, poke the OIDC endpoints with curl, and integrate a Spring Boot Resource

  2026-05-14 · 23 min read #keycloak#oidc#oauth2#authentication#authorization

• Docker BuildKit & Image Layers Complete Guide 2025: LLB, Cache Mount, Multi-Stage, OCI, Build Optimization Deep Dive ♪ Listenable

  Why is the same Dockerfile 10x faster with BuildKit? Image layer structure, BuildKit LLB, cache mount, multi-stage builds, OCI format, reproducible builds — a complete 720-line analysis of everything about modern contain

  2026-04-15 · 26 min read #docker#buildkit#oci#image-layer#cache-mount

• Container & Docker Internals Deep Dive — Namespace, cgroups, OverlayFS, seccomp, Capabilities and Kubernetes (2025)

  "A container is not a lightweight VM." Behind a single docker run there are 7 Linux namespaces, cgroups v2, OverlayFS layers, seccomp filters, and Linux capabilities. From LXC in 2008 to Docker in 2013, OCI standardizati

  2026-04-15 · 12 min read #docker#container#namespace#cgroups#overlayfs

• Container Security & Supply Chain Complete Guide 2025: Image Scanning, Sigstore, SBOM, Runtime Security

  Everything about container security! Image scanning (Trivy/Grype/Snyk), image signing (Sigstore/cosign), SBOM (CycloneDX/SPDX), runtime security (Falco/Tetragon), Pod Security Standards, Network Policy, Seccomp/AppArmor,

  2026-04-14 · 15 min read #container-security#supply-chain#image-scanning#sigstore#sbom