Docker for Mac and Windows: The Insider's Guide - Black Belt Track
Channel: Docker
Date: 01/07/2016

Docker for Mac and Windows were released in beta in March, and provide lots of new features that users have been clamouring for including: file system notifications, simpler file sharing, and no Virtualbox hassles. 

During this talk, I will give the inside guide to how these products work. We will look at all the major components and how they fit together to make up the product. This includes a technical deep dive covering the hypervisors for OSX and Windows, the custom file sharing code, the networking, the embedded Alpine Linux distribution, and more.

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Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 700 million times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world’s most innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp, and Spotify. Docker’s rapid adoption has catalyzed an active ecosystem, resulting in more than 180,000 “Dockerized” applications, over 40 Docker-related startups and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.