Last week I published an article on ASP.NET blog about using ASP.NET 5 Docker image –which happens to be my side project that turned into Microsoft’s first official Docker image. I wanted to take time to explain how it all happened. We have a @Docker image for @ASPNET now! https://t.co/i3sYleAuHq 🎉 Yaay for Microsoft's first Docker image! 🎊 pic.twitter.com/lEmCaEHNYD — Ahmet Alp Balkan (@ahmetalpbalkan) November 14, 2014 Before Docker was really popular at Microsoft (around May 2014), I was playing with it and thought about running this new open source ASP. Read more →

We had a great time in last week’s Istanbul Azure Meetup. You can find my presentation slides here. We discussed Microsoft’s attitude for open source technologies, containers technologies, Azure and Docker. It’s great to see such exciting audience. You can read our event host Daron’s recap blog post here. Thanks everyone for coming in. You might want to join regular Azure meetup group on Meetup.com if you’re in Istanbul. Below you will find a few photos from the event. Read more →

When Daron Yondem, an Azure MVP in Turkey, visited us in Redmond, we had a chance to talk about Docker (you can find the video recording here). He came up with a neat idea –with having me talking at Istanbul Azure Meetup as I’m on vacation in Turkey nowadays! Event: Istanbul Azure Meetup Date: Jan 3rd 2015 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Location: Bahcesehir University, Istanbul I will be talking about Azure, container technologies, Docker, open source software and how it all plays together. Read more →

I just wanted to echo the blog post I recently authored on Azure official blog titled “Deploying Your Own Private Docker Registry on Azure” and shoot an introductory video about it which you can find it below. With this, you can use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage to store your Docker images. Please read the tutorial on the Microsoft Azure Blog before watching the video to have a more clear picture: Read more →

I gave a talk at Docker Seattle Meetup with my colleagues Taylor from Hyper-V team and Dan from ASP.NET team last week. If you are wondering about “Windows Server Containers”, “Docker on Windows” and “ASP.NET on Linux” topics, you can directly jump into the full video and the slides below. I am very glad Dan and Taylor have joined me; we got tons of wonderful questions from the audience as I anticipated and we had a chance to address those very well. Read more →

Geçtiğimiz ay Seattle’daki Microsoft ofisinde Azure MVP’lerinden Daron Yöndem‘i ağırladık. Kendisiyle Docker ve container teknolojileri üzerine kısa bir ders tadında Docker nedir, ne işe yarar, nasıl çalışır konularında konuştuk.

Videoyu aşağıda bulabilirsiniz. Her ne kadar bu kayıt biraz aceleye gelmiş olsa da umarım bu konuda daha geniş çaplı derli toplu konuşmayı Ocak 2015’te İstanbul’da tekrar yapmayı düşünüyoruz: İstanbul Azure buluşmasına kaydolmak için tıklayın.

I had a chance to join my Azure Program Manager colleague Khalid as a last minute speaker at his talk for the Azure IaaS for IT Pros online event. I showed a demo of running ASP.NET 5 in Docker containers hosted on Azure Linux VMs using our official Docker preview image for ASP.NET (which happens to be one of my side projects ended up turned into an official thing). The demo starts around 46:00 mark, I hope you enjoy the video and the other sessions in the event as well. Read more →

After taking on my new role at the Azure Linux Team, my first assignment was to get the Docker command line interface working on Windows. This is an important piece in bringing Docker into the Windows ecosystem and part of our partnership with Docker. Who wants @Docker for Windows? Got it cross-compiling tonight! 🐳 cc:@solomonstre #docker pic.twitter.com/bGOn0jmX8m — Ahmet Alp Balkan (@ahmetalpbalkan) October 28, 2014 Today, I am proud to announce that the first piece of Windows code is now merged into Docker, which means you can now compile the Docker client on Windows! Read more →

I had a chance to give a lightning talk entitled Running C# in Linux Containers at the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference on October 25, 2014. This was to demonstrate my side project: creating a Docker image for ASP.NET (which has become official now: microsoft/aspnet). Below you can find the slides I used: Now that the Microsoft/aspnet container image is available, it is even easier to run applications written in ASP.NET (even console applications) inside Docker containers! Read more →

I am happy to announce that I have joined Azure Linux Team today. After working on the Azure Fabric Controller (which manages datacenters, host machines, allocations, service healing and so many of the complicated things in Azure cloud) for 2 years, I have decided to pursue opportunities in open source. Initially, I will be working on Docker, which I already have been working with for my 20%-time side projects at Microsoft. Read more →