The LiveWyer Labs Blog

At LiveWyer Labs we innovate through research and development, empowering our company to optimise operations and deliver greater value to our clients. We experiment and collaborate to stay ahead of the curve and achieve our business objectives and yours.

Here are some things we've been working on. If you have any questions about any of them, feel free to get in touch with us.

Building Docker containers from within a Docker container

A spiral of containers with the text 'Dockerception'

Jake Sanders | 23 March 2015

The first question running through your head is probably "Why would anyone want to do this?" However running Docker within a container is actually quite a common use case...

Distributed Storage using GlusterFS

A pair of hard drives with the GlusterFS mascot in between them

Jake Sanders | 02 March 2015

A common issue with cloud applications is the requirement for persistent storage

Slimming down your Docker containers with Alpine Linux

A container labelled 'Debian Nginx' is squashed in a trash compacter resulting in a smaller container labelled 'Nginx'

Jake Sanders | 24 February 2015

If a container is designed to run a single process, why aren't containers the size of the package or binary download for the app they contain?

Running Apache Mesos inside Docker on CoreOS

The CoreOS and Mesos logos next to each other

Jake Sanders | 16 February 2015

If you've heard of docker containers, you've probably also heard of CoreOS

Service discovery for Docker containers using Consul and Registration

An illustration of a shopfront with the sign 'Key Value Store'

Jake Sanders | 05 February 2015

You've converted your monolithic application stack into a series of linked docker containers, and everything is working great!

Applications at scale: Running Docker containers on Apache Mesos

Jake Sanders | 26 January 2015

The world of technology moves too fast for this to be acceptable, so in recent years, the "DevOps philosophy" has emerged, a process where both development and operations engineers take part in the whole product life cycle...