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Docker Engine exposes a REST API which you can use to control your containers without the docker CLI. The API exposes equivalent functionality using HTTP network calls. You can script common Docker operations using your favorite programming language or remotely control one of your hosts. The CLI internally relies on the same API to provide its built-in commands.

Docker Extensions allow Docker Desktop to integrate with a wide range of partner tools for software supply chain security, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and more.

Docker Extensions allow Docker Desktop to integrate with a wide range of partner tools for software supply chain security, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and more.

Cloud containers are increasingly part of the cybercrime playbook, with researchers flagging ongoing scanning for Docker weaknesses along with rapid exploitation to infect systems with coin-miners, denial-of-service tools, and ransomware.

Organisations could unwittingly be participating in hostile activity against the Russian government after compromised IT infrastructure used without their knowledge to launch denial of service attacks.

CrowdStrike detects denial-of-service attack using Docker images with target lists that overlap with domains reportedly shared by the Ukraine government-backed Ukraine IT Army.

In February 2022, Docker Engine honeypots were compromised to execute different Docker images targeting Russian and Belarusian websites in a DoS attack.

The Twelve-factor app methodology turns 10. This blog posts re-evaluates the original factors against a decade of experience with software-as-a-service development and the maturing of serverless development.

When working with Docker, you usually containerize the services that form your stack and use inter-container networking to communicate between them. Sometimes you might need a container to talk to a service on your host that hasn’t been containerized. Here’s how to access localhost or 127.0.0.1 from within a Docker container.

Portainer is a popular Docker UI that helps you visualise your containers, images, volumes and networks. Portainer helps you take control of the Docker resources on your machine, avoiding lengthy terminal commands.