What are Docker Storage Drivers and Which Should You Use?

November 11, 2021

Docker storage drivers control how images and containers are stored on your filesystem. They’re the mechanism that lets you create images, start containers, and modify writable layers. Here are the differences between each driver and the situations where they should be used. Read More »

The top utility displays current CPU usage for each running process, but what if you wanted to monitor this over time and display it on a graph? There are a few utilities for this if your cloud provider doesn’t have one already. Read More »

Annotations, labels, and selectors are used to manage metadata attached to your Kubernetes objects. Annotations and labels define the data while selectors provide a way to query it. Read More »

The Unix PATH is an environment variable that tells the shell which directories it should look for when you issue commands. You can think of it like a list of Application or Program Files folders. Read More »

Native Linux support for Apple’s new ARM-based architecture isn’t yet ready, but you can run Linux on an M1, M1 Pro, or M1 Max using a virtual machine. This allows you to run 64-bit x86 Linux apps or try out different distros from the comfort of macOS. Read More »

So, you finally downloaded and installed Fedora Linux, but now you may be wondering, how do you keep your system up to date? Thankfully, Fedora gives you a couple of methods for system updates. Let’s take a look. Read More »

There are several ways to bring up Google Search on your Android phone. You can pin a Search widget to your home screen, for example, or press the dedicated Google Assistant button on your phone to ask a quick question. But soon, Google will introduce a new way to Search on Android—a floating bubble that provides easy access to Search and Assistant. Read More »

By now, you’ve probably heard that Pixel 6 owners are having trouble with their fingerprint readers. Some people have unresponsive sensors, others have non-working sensors, and so on. Google recently blamed these issues on “enhanced security algorithms” and user error, but a new bug shows that crappy software may be behind some Pixel 6 owners’ fingerprint-scanning woes. Read More »