Posts with the tag docker:

OVH & Docker - Failed to register layer: devmapper

I’ve been using OVH’s dedicated server range recently. When ever I tried to use docker with the Ubuntu latest LTS I ended up with an error failed to register layer: devmapper:. The solution is rather simple, OVH dedicated servers use rather old and unsupported kernel versions. The solution is upgrade linux kernel.

Go dep in Docker

Go’s dependency handling has been an area which has been needing unification, over the years. Multiple package managers have been created. The Go community has been working on creating a dependency manager recently, which they plan on getting added to the official toolchain. I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and start using this tool. Here’s how I’ve been using it in docker.

Increase docker device size on Ubuntu

So I’ve got an application that I’m running via and Docker. That requires a certain amount of disk space and would run out of space very quickly with the default 10G limit that Docker comes with.