Tag: containers

Docker Desktop got expensive and RAM-hungry. Colima is the lean alternative. OrbStack is the one everyone's actually using now. Here's the honest breakdown for Mac developers.

A Software Bill of Materials tells you exactly what's in your software. Syft generates one, Grype scans it for CVEs. Together they're your supply chain paper trail.

Pulling unscanned images onto your server is a gamble. Trivy finds the CVEs. Cosign proves the image hasn't been swapped out. Here's how to add both to your workflow.

Falco watches every syscall your containers make and screams when something sketchy happens. Like someone exec'ing a shell inside your nginx container at 3am.

You're pulling container images from strangers on the internet. Trivy scans them for CVEs. Cosign proves they haven't been tampered with. Use both.

Run Docker containers without root privileges, here's the security difference, the install steps, and the gotchas nobody tells you about.

Docker networking confuses everyone at first. Here's the practical breakdown of bridge, host, overlay, and macvlan, with real Compose examples.

Forget docker stats. ctop and lazydocker give you real-time container insights with less friction than typing commands.

Stop letting Docker Hub throttle your CI/CD. Run Harbor for RBAC, Trivy scanning, image replication, and a real UI, on infrastructure you control.

Portainer, Dockge, and Dockhand compared side by side. Portainer handles fleets, Dockge nails single-host Compose, Dockhand gives you multi-host and SSO free.

Using :latest in production is a ticking time bomb. Pin your Docker image versions or watch a surprise update break everything at 2 AM.

Alpine gives you a shell and apk; Distroless gives you nothing but the app. Compare attack surface, image size, and multi-stage build complexity.