Docker

Dockerizing application that use unix sockets

12 April 2020·737 words·4 mins

Golang Docker Golang Docker

While trying to understand how components that deal with Container Storage Interface (CSI) in Kubernetes, I came across mentions of how the components were using Unix domain sockets to communicate with each other. A quick read on why unix domain sockets seem to reveal that its use is to reduce the amount of overhead while such components talk to each locally. If the components had required to talk across to multiple nodes, it would have used TCP instead.

Using Docker Multi Stage builds to run unit tests

17 October 2017·Updated: 27 April 2019·1212 words·6 mins

Python Docker Python Docker

This is a suggestion piece and not a recommended way of using docker or anything. Motivation # The question we would want to know here is how do we exactly run the full on/all the unit tests for our applications built via Docker. One way to do this is to rely on a build server like Jenkins to create the required environment which we would need for a build and then run the unit test needed. However, this would mean that there is need to bootstrap a environment to do so.