Configuring Docker containers in the OwnCloud cloud

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Article from Issue 168/2014
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Run your application smoothly and portably in the cloud with the Docker container system. This workshop takes a practical look deploying Docker with the OwnCloud cloud environment.

If you focus on virtualization today, you've surely encountered the new world of Linux container technology. Docker provides a powerful, enterprise-level tool that makes it easy for admins to roll out new and lightweight instances of their applications.

This workshop shows how to configure Docker [1] with the OwnCloud cloud service and demonstrates Docker at work with complex applications that require a web server, a database, and persistent storage.

Getting Started

It does not matter whether you use the Docker as your container manager: The basis for any container is always an image that consists of the distribution filesystem. You can either use pre-built images or build an image yourself. The do-it-yourself approach has advantages, and once you build an image, you can modify it later to adapt it to new situations.

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