Tag: container images

Introduction Containerization has gained popularity as a method for deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes, which is a leading container orchestration platform. Many customers choose Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for its performance, scalability, availability, and integration with other AWS services and security. Enterprises across the industry opt for private container repositories, such as […]

This feature will be pre-installed and supported by Docker when version 25.0 is released. This feature is already released in Buildkit versions of 0.12 or later and is available now on Finch versions 0.8 or later. Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed container registry that customers use to store, share, […]

Introduction Containers have become the go-to solution for deploying modern and scalable applications. The boot time of these containers can present a significant challenge, particularly when dealing with workloads that require large container images. For instance, data analytics and machine learning workloads often involve images that exceed 1 GiB in size. When running these types […]

About a year ago, we published a post on how to Optimize your Spring Boot application for AWS Fargate, where we went into different optimization techniques to speed up the startup time of Spring Boot applications for AWS Fargate. We started the post with “Fast startup times are key to quickly react to disruptions and […]

Introduction When you purchase a packaged food item in your local grocery store, you probably check the list of ingredients written to understand what’s inside and make sure you aren’t consuming ingredients inadvertently that you don’t want to or are known to have adverse health effects. Do you think in a similar way when you […]

Introduction Many applications built today or modernized from monoliths are done so using microservice architectures. The microservice architecture makes applications easier to scale and faster to develop, which enables innovation and accelerating time-to-market for new features. In addition, microservices also provide lifecycle autonomy enabling applications to have independent build and deploy processes, which provides technological […]

November 2023: AWS Fargate now supports having both SOCI and non SOCI enabled containers in the same Amazon ECS task, therefore the “All container images within an Amazon ECS Task need a SOCI Index Manifest” restriction no longer applies. To learn more see the whats new post.   AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for […]

Introduction Today we are excited to announce the launch of AWS Signer Container Image Signing, a new capability that gives customers native AWS support for signing and verifying container images stored in container registries like Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). AWS Signer is a fully managed code signing service to ensure trust and integrity […]

Docker Hub has recently updated its terms of service to introduce rate limits for container image pulls. While these limits don’t apply to accounts under a Pro or Team plan, anonymous users are limited to 100 pulls per 6 hours per IP address, and authenticated free accounts are limited to 200 pulls per 6 hours. […]

By Richard Nguyen and Michael Hausenblas Container security comprises a range of activities and tools, involving developers, security operations engineers, and infrastructure admins. One crucial part in the cloud native supply chain is to scan container images for vulnerabilities and being able to get actionable insights from it. We learned in Issue 17 of the […]