Mark Drew talks about “Getting started fast with Docker” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. In this presentation, Mark Drew will go through the fundamentals of the Query Language, structure, use cases and how we can get started with GraphQL endpoints.

In a world where APIs and REST are the way that we can communicate with services, it can become an arduous task to get to the information you need.

For example, if you look at a single tweet, obtained from Twitter's API, you will so a stack of information that you don't need! If only there was a way to query this data to get just what you need.

Enter Facebook's GraphQL language. A language specification that solves the same problem that SQL did for Relational Databases.

Show notes

What the heck is a Docker container and why should all CFer care?

Analogy with containerized shipping of goods across the sea

The challenges they overcome

Separation of apps from how they are deployed

Need to pre-warm your server before running new code

Scripting of container building

Live and dev versions can be the same

Environment variables eg which db are we using

Able to test on load balanced cluster

Docker containers are lightweight compared to VM

Fast to start up

Able to run other types of task in micro services and micro transactions

Adobe CF vs Lucee CFML licensing on Docker

Separate lifecycle for each container

All developers in same environment

Easier port mapping running many versions of CF, db, OS etc

Safe and clean way to test out new programming languages

VMs vs Containers

Docker vs Vagrant

Are traditional ISPs going to go away?

But now you have to keep your CF etc patched

How to Get started with the Docker Engine

Install Docker

Before needed VirtualBox VM first

Now we have native versions on Linux and Windows

Kitematic to search for instances - auto download and install

Attach a volume (OS folder) to your container

Create a Docker file (it is called DockerFile!)

From command

Copy CF files

Docker Build

Commit to Docker version control such as Docker Hub private repository (or AWS repository)

Command Box

WTF is  Docker compose?

Create a whole web app environment with multiple containers for CF, db etc

Virtual networks between them

Documents the environment

How Docker Swarm can make your sites more reliable

Docker clusters

Automatic restart

Automatic adding extra Docker instances

Rolling updates across your cluster

Docker Cloud and Continuous Integration

Jenkins

Slack bot messages

Why are you proud to use CFML?

It actually gets stuff done

Modern language

Forgebox

Commandbox CFML scripting

Easy to scale

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

More Forgebox contributions

Code of conduct on GitHub

No more X vs Y flame wars - focus on the positive of X (or Y)

What are you looking forward to at CFObjective?

Mentioned in this episode

Docker 

Amazon Docker

Heroku container provider 

Google containers Kubernetes 

CommandBox

Malcolm Mc Lean invented the common sized container in 1956

Reefer - refrigerated containers (and not something you might smoke!)

Lucee CFML

Jenkins

CIBot

VM = Virtual Machine

MongoDB

YAML (Docker Compose file format)

Puppet (for Vagrant)

Chef (for Vagrant)

Git

Repository for the containers

Ubuntu Linux

Alpine Linux

Tomcat

Headless Wind

Rancher  

Lucee Docker

Docker Hub

Docker Swarm

Docker Cloud

A WAR file

Ruby programming language

Node.js

Ortus

Forgebox

RIAForge

99Percent invisible podcast

Localhost podcast

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Bio

Mark Drew

Mark has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with CFML. His career has concentrated on eCommerce, Content Management and Application Scalability for various well-known brands in the UK market such as Jaeger, Hackett, Hobbs, Dyson, B&W, Diesel amongst others.

Links

Twitter

LinkedIn

CFML Slack

Mark (at) CMDHQ.com

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I am here with Mark Drew otherwise known as the amazing C.F.O. from London.

Mark:               There's only one of us in London.

Michael:          There’s only one, others 00:12 [crosstalk]

Mark:               There’s hundreds of them.

Michael:          Yes and he's the director of web development at C.M.D. which is a web development shop, I believe in the U.K.

Mark:               In sunny Greenwich.

Michael:          In Greenwich yes, he got Greenwich Mean Time exactly down. And he's also the co-host of a new podcast called ‘Local Host’. So, check that out too. I’ll put the link in the show notes to that.

So today, we're looking at how C.F.S. can get started fast with Docker and we're going to look at what a Dock container is and why everyone listening should care about that. The challenges they overcome, Docker versus Vagrant even controversially our traditional I.S.P. is going to go away if Docker gets his way.

And how they compare the virtual machines, how you can get started with a Docker engine. What the heck is Docker compose? And using Docker to make your sites even more reliable. Docker cloud and how you can get started with Docker.

So, welcome Mark.

Mark:               Well, thank you Michel for having me on board. This is very exciting all across the internets.

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