Docker on Sandro Cirulli

Continuous Security with Jenkins and Docker Bench

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Docker Bench is an open source tool for automatically validating the configuration of a host running Docker containers. The tool has been written among others by Diogo Mónica, security lead at Docker, and performs security checks at the container level following Docker’s CIS Benchmark recommendations.

As you would expect, the easiest way to run Docker Bench is via a Docker container. Just make sure you have Docker 1.10 or better, download the Docker image:

DevOps Oxford Meetup

Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I’m presenting at DevOps Oxford Meetup at the Oxford Centre for Innovation in my ‘home town’ Oxford. This is a short version of the talk Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose I gave at DockerCon Europe 2015 but with a few updates. The slides of the talk are here and the sample code is on GitHub.

API Days Nordic 2016

Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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This week I’m attending API Days Nordic at the University of Tampere (Finland), a technical conference on heavy industry and APIs, government driven API platforms, and APIOps (APIs, DevOps, containers, testing, micro services, and monitoring). This is part of the API Days series of conferences and it is the first time that it is organised in Finland.

My presentation focuses on how to deploy an API gateway with Docker. The slides are available here and the code is on GitHub. This is the summary of my presentation:

DockerCon Europe 2015

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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This week I am attending DockerCon Europe 2015 in Barcelona where I am going to talk about Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose. This is a reviewed version of a previous blog post on Jenkins and Docker. The slides or my presentation are here and the sample code is on GitHub.

Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Docker and Compose

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Oxford University Press (OUP) recently started the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) initiative which aims at providing language resources for digitally under represented languages. In August 2015 OUP launched two African languages websites for Zulu and Northern Sotho. The backend of these websites is based on an API retrieving data in RDF from a triple store and delivering data to the frontend in JSON-LD.

The entire micro-service infrastructure for development, staging, and production runs on Docker containers in Amazon EC2 instances. In particular, we use Jenkins to rebuild the Docker image for the API based on a Python Flask application and Docker Compose to orchestrate the containers. A typical CI workflow is as follows:

XML London 2015

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend I am attending XML London at University College London, a 2 day conference on XML and Semantic Web technologies. I am presenting a paper on Continuous Integration for XML and RDF Data. The paper is available here and the slides of my presentation are available here.

Update: XML London put online the full video of the presentation: