446 saved links. The 2023 layer is the great containerization education (how images work, Docker-to-K8s migrations, Azure’s container menu); the 2025–26 layer is something new: containers as the habitat for AI agents — sandboxes, model runners, and MCP toolkits.
Related: Kubernetes · DevOps · Azure · Linux & CLI
Start here
- Marc Brooker: the word “container” has at least four definitions — and why that matters.
- the inner workings of Docker — the magic behind containerization and Docker architecture, mechanism by mechanism.
- the OCI image format, broken down — what an image really is.
- the Docker roadmap · docker-curriculum.com · the full beginners video course.
- Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Podman · rootless containers, comprehensively.
Containers meet agents
The 2025–26 story: containers as the safety boundary for autonomous code.
- “Your container is not a sandbox” — the security caveat to read first.
- Dagger’s container-use: from babysitting one agent to running many safely.
- VS Code’s built-in agent sandbox · a Claude + VS Code + Dev Containers setup — the workflow you live in.
- Docker’s AI stack: Docker AI · the Docker MCP Toolkit · Agent Builder and Runtime from Docker engineering · MCP servers in E2B sandboxes (video).
- “unit tests” for agent skills — Docker-isolated benchmarks with LLM grading.
- building a RAG app with Docker + Ollama — published in the official docs · the self-hosted AI starter kit in one Docker Compose · “GenAI in a box”: Docker, Neo4j, LangChain, Ollama.
- dockerizing an AI agent from scratch · local LLMs in a container on Azure.
Azure’s container menu
- Web App for Containers vs. Container Apps — the decision visuals and running containers in Azure: the full analysis.
- AKS & Container Instances for beginners · Azure Containers Explained — the book.
- Container Apps in practice: ACA Jobs with Bicep and the CLI · running Playwright in Container Apps · LLM apps on ACA · an MCP server deployed to ACA over lunch · AI Foundry agents + ACA for an Agent2Agent solution · Azure Functions on Container Apps.
- automated deployments for AKS (video).
Running containers well
- container best practices — and why you should care.
- the container security checklist: from image to workload.
- patching container images with Trivy and Copacetic in the pipeline.
- a Docker monitoring stack: Prometheus, Grafana, cAdvisor, prebuilt dashboards.
- multi-arch containers and the “exec format error”.
- Migrations: containers → Kubernetes: a migration roadmap · VMs → containers planning guide · notes from a Swarm → K8s migration.
Hands-on
- labs.play-with-docker.com and the Docker networking hands-on lab.
- dockerlabs.collabnix.com — the big free lab collection.
- how iximiuz built a Firecracker-powered course platform for Docker and K8s and building a microVM from a container — the layer below.
- dev containers in VS Code (video) · Hanselman: each layer of abstraction indistinguishable from magic (video).
- “Understanding Docker — as an 11-year-old” — the explain-it-simply test.