I have been guest of Scott Hanselman on our weekly #AzureFriday show last week. We talked about Docker 101 and some new cool Docker features on the Visual Studio Docker plugin. Thanks Scott for having me! Read More →

I spent the last two months porting the Docker command line interface to Windows with my colleagues on the Microsoft Azure Linux team. Starting with Docker 1.6, a Windows client is shipping with Docker’s official release. This is my first time heavily participating in the development of an open source project and I want to tell you how awesome it was. We recently announced the first version of “Docker Client for Windows” on Azure Blog and on Docker Blog and this is the making-of story of it! Read More →

Posting some photos from the event! Thanks everyone for coming in. We had a great day at Docker Seattle Meetup this time and thanks Docker folks for flying up here and joining us! I shared news around Windows Server Containers, Hyper-V Containers, Windows Nano Server, Docker Client for Windows and future plans for Docker in Azure platform. Patrick Chanezon from Docker has went over Docker ecosystem and how each piece of containerization tools and techniques play with each other. Read More →

I will be speaking at Docker Seattle Meetup group about “Docker Ecosystem on Azure and Windows” with Patrick Chanezon. Please join us for this free event on April 22, 2015 (6-9 PM) at Impact Hub Seattle. You can register here or check similar events in New York City or San Francisco. Read More →

I have been guest of David Tesar in the Edge show on Channel 9 to talk about the early bits of Docker Machine and how it is used to create Docker hosts on Microsoft Azure. Docker Machine (formerly known as docker hosts command in its earliest days) has an Azure driver which has been developed by Jeff Mendoza in Microsoft Open Technologies. This driver written in Go uses azure-sdk-for-go to talk to Azure Service Management APIs to provision virtual machines and install Docker in them using the Azure Docker VM Extension. Read More →

I have been guest of Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente and Scott Koon in their lovely Herding Code Podcast Episode 202 to talk about Docker and Docker things happening on Windows and Microsoft Azure platform. We chatted about making of the ASP.NET 5 Docker image, doing open source at Microsoft, container orchestration technologies and some speculations about how Windows containers will work. You can visit their website or iTunes to tune in or just listen below: Read More →

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 →