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. Read More →

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 →

I recently needed to secure my Docker host instance simply with a basic username and password authentication as I mostly find the certificate creation steps tedious. Docker has no built-in username/password authentication support so I thought I could have a HTTP proxy server which asks for a password on top of Docker Remote API server. Below you will find how you can secure your Docker host using username and password, namely HTTP Basic Authentication. Read More →

I am proud to announce my latest work: Docker.DotNet. It is a .NET library to interact with Docker API programmatically in C#/VB.NET applications. Using this library, you can command your docker instance to pull images, create containers, stop containers and many other things available in the Docker Remote API. The story behind it is, Docker has almost no tooling on Windows at the moment and I wanted to enable developers who would like to write Docker management apps for Windows on top of Docker API. Read More →