Sometimes, you only need one container, because all you need is one instance of an app. But sometimes you need cluster of containers that can respond to changes in demand, and that can be upgraded ...

Decking out your home lab with useful (and downright wacky) self-hosted services never gets old, regardless of the number of years under your belt as a server owner. But once you transition from ...

As someone who loves experimenting with wacky self-hosted services, let me tell you, containers are a godsend for home labs. They don’t consume too many resources, provide decent isolation provisions, ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to manage a Docker Swarm deployment with the Portainer web-based GUI. Image: BalanceFormCreative/Adobe Stock I’ve said this many times before, and I’ll say it many ...

Jack Wallen demonstrates how to attach and remove nodes from clusters in Docker Swarm to scale your services up and down as needed. If Docker Swarm is your container cluster technology of choice, ...

Learn about the use cases for each of Docker's networking models, and how to best apply and tune them for your needs A common use case for Docker is networked services, and Docker has its own ...

The Docker orchestration services described in December by the company's CEO as the next 12 months' most important developments are now available for public use. The first downloadable versions of ...