Enable No-Code Kubernetes with the harpoon Docker Extension

(This post is co-written by Dominic Holt, Founder & CEO of harpoon.) Kubernetes has been a game-changer for ensuring scalable, high availability container orchestration in the Software, DevOps, and Cloud Native ecosystems. While the value is great, it doesn’t come for free. Significant effort goes into learning Kubernetes and all...

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Docker Compose: What’s New, What’s Changing, What’s Next

We’ll walk through new Docker Compose features the team has built, share what we plan to work on next, and remind you to switch to Compose V2 as soon as possible. Compose V1 support will no longer be provided after June 2023 and will be removed from all future Docker Desktop versions. If you’re still on Compose V1, we recommend you switch as...

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January Extensions: Deploy Kubernetes and Develop Cloud Apps Locally

It’s a new year, and we’ve got some new Docker Extensions to share with you! Docker extensions build new functionality into Docker Desktop, extend its existing capabilities, and allow you to discover and integrate additional tools that you’re already using with Docker. Let’s take a look at our exciting new extensions from January. And if you’d...

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Generating SBOMs for Your Image with BuildKit

The latest release series of BuildKit, v0.11, introduces support for build-time attestations and SBOMs, allowing publishers to create images with records of how the image was built. This makes it easier for you to answer common questions, like which packages are in the image, where the image was built from, and whether you can reproduce the same results...

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Highlights from the BuildKit v0.11 Release

BuildKit v0.11 is now available, along with Buildx v0.10 and v1.5 of the Dockerfile syntax. We’ve released new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, and improved documentation for all of the Docker Build tools.Let’s dive into what’s new! We’ll cover the highlights, but you can get the whole story in the full changelogs. In this post:1....

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Develop Your Cloud App Locally with the LocalStack Extension

Local deployment is a great way to improve your development speed, lower your cloud costs, and develop for the cloud when access is restricted due to regulations. But it can also mean one more tool to manage when you’re developing an application. With the LocalStack Docker Extension, you get a fully functional local cloud stack integrated directly...

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Docker Desktop 4.16: Better Performance and Docker Extensions GA

Docker Desktop 4.16 is our first release of the new year and we’re excited to kick off 2023 with a bang. In this release, Docker Extensions moved from beta to GA. The Docker Extensions feature connects the Docker toolchain to your application development and deployment workflows. To make using Docker Extensions easier, we added the ability to search,...

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December 2022 Newsletter

New in Docker Desktop 4.15: Improving Usability and Performance for Easier Builds Docker Desktop 4.15 is here! And it’s packed with usability upgrades to help you find the images you want, manage your containers, discover vulnerabilities, and more. Learn More ...

Dec 2022

December Extensions Roundup: Improving Visibility for Your APIs and Images

It’s time for the holidays, and we’ve got some exciting new Docker Extensions to share with you! Docker Extensions build new functionality into Docker Desktop, extend its existing capabilities, and allow you to discover and integrate additional tools that you’re already using with Docker. Let’s take a look at two exciting new extensions from December....

Dec 2022

Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension

This guest post is written by Prakhar Srivastav, Senior Software Engineer at Google. Anyone who’s built their own containers, either for local development or for cloud deployment, knows the advantages of keeping container sizes small. In most cases, keeping the container image size small translates to real dollars saved by reducing...

Dec 2022