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 →

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 →