Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker[/fancy_header3] At the heart of any network engineer’s toolkit, are applications that let you peer into the network for performance, congestion and capacity planning. One of the thoroughbreds in the open source network tools collection is iperf. Iperf has been around for a long time. The good folks… Continue reading Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker

Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking[/fancy_header3] Macvlan and Ipvlan are both Linux type networking interfaces that are both supported by the Linux kernel. They are unique for a few different reasons. One thing that makes them both very attractive is they do not use bridges in their implementation and natively namespace aware. It solves… Continue reading Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking

Docker on Google Compute Engine Using Docker Machine

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”] Docker on Google Compute Engine Using Docker Machine[/fancy_header3] Next up in Using Docker Machine across private and public clouds, is Google Compute Engine (GCE). As with the other posts, a diagram of how I view the importance of a Docker Machine abstraction. First, if you don’t already have an account you can get… Continue reading Docker on Google Compute Engine Using Docker Machine

Building Network Tools using Docker

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]Building Network Tools using Docker[/fancy_header3] I am going to start pushing out an app every month that fixes some problem in networking. In this case I hacked it up over the past couple of weekends, but other times it will just be me using someones open source awesomeness and demoing it. First some thoughts… Continue reading Building Network Tools using Docker

Running Docker Machine on Digital Ocean

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”] Running Docker Machine on Digital Ocean [/fancy_header3] Continuing the series on cloud provider examples using Docker machine, up next is Digital Ocean. As with the other posts here is a diagram of how I view Docker Machine usage. For those who don’t have an account already, you can sign get $10 credit with… Continue reading Running Docker Machine on Digital Ocean

10 Examples of how to get Docker Container IP Address

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”]10 Examples of how to get Docker Container IP Address[/fancy_header3] One thing that is so much fun about the need virtualization paradigm we are heading towards is that in the age of “software defined”, the flexibility of how to do things with infra are much more like programming then working with highly opinionated traditional… Continue reading 10 Examples of how to get Docker Container IP Address

Running Docker Machine on Rackspace Public Cloud

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”] Running Docker Machine on Rackspace Public Cloud[/fancy_header3] Next up I am giving Docker Machine on Rackspace public cloud a whirl. If you don’t have an account and want to check it out take a look at their developer+ credit. Here is a gif diagram (I’m addicted to making gifs atm, sometimes not even… Continue reading Running Docker Machine on Rackspace Public Cloud

Docker Machine Provisioning on AWS

[fancy_header3 textColor=”#25b6eb”] Docker Machine Provisioning on AWS[/fancy_header3] Next up in the docker machine series of integration posts is spinning up some cloud resources on Amazon EC2. The model is the same as previous docker machine posts, boot a VM running as a Docker host, add your cloud credentials for the provider and use your regular… Continue reading Docker Machine Provisioning on AWS