{"id":12364,"date":"2014-02-02T00:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2014-02-02T00:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T06:50:38","slug":"docker-the-linux-container-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12364","title":{"rendered":"Docker: the Linux container engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.<\/p>\n<p>Common use cases for Docker include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automating the packaging and deployment of applications<\/li>\n<li>Creation of lightweight, private PAAS environments<\/li>\n<li>Automated testing and continuous integration\/deployment<\/li>\n<li>Deploying and scaling web apps, databases and backend services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docker.io\/learn_more\/\">About Docker &#8211; Docker: the Linux container engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[138,61,1202,308],"class_list":["post-12364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization-2","tag-foss-2","tag-linux","tag-paas","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}