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Nigel Poulton
@nigelpoulton.com
Author of *AI Explained*. All things AI 🤖

Currently undercover at Cyberdyne Systems trying to prevent Skynet.

Full new chapter covering Docker Model Runner for local LLMs!
Docker Captain @nigelpoulton.com just dropped the 2025 edition of Getting Started with Docker—now with an AI/LLM project.

📘 Hands-on labs
📘 Real-world deployments
📘 No experience needed

If you're serious about shipping containers, this is a must-read.

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Getting Started with Docker
Amazon.com: Getting Started with Docker: 9781916585300: Poulton, Nigel: Books
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May 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm very excited about Docker Model Runner!

- Local LLMs directly on host GPUs via the Docker CLI/API

It's early days, but this could be huge.

I've got some good discussion going on on my LinkedIn post if you want to join the conversation...

www.linkedin.com/posts/nigelp...
#docker #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ml #devops | Nigel Poulton | 40 comments
🚀 Big news from Docker, Inc — and it’s a game-changer for AI developers. Say hello to Docker Model Runner — LLMs. Locally. With Docker! Here's the TLDR and… | 40 comments on LinkedIn
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March 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I'm about to publish the 2025 edition of *The Kubernetes Book* and I've taken a punt on who will be this season's English Premier League champions 🤷
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Curious if anyone's using restartable initContainers as sidecars in #Kubernetes?
January 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Absolutely love the new cover for the 2025 edition of *Getting Started with Docker ... and AI*

Available now on Amazon and Leanpub. Other platforms soon!
#docker #cloudnative #MLops #AIops #DevOps
December 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Pretty excited to be adding AI projects and chapters to my #Docker and #kubernetes books ready for 2025.

First up... the 2025 edition of *Getting Started with Docker* which I'm hoping to release on Monday 👍
December 4, 2024 at 10:22 AM
November 13, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Great photo at #kubecon @spurin.bsky.social @aakansha.bsky.social

I love how you can see Ramesh in the background 😆
November 12, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Just arrived at #kubecon and will be at #WasmCon this afternoon. Come and say hi 👍♥️🤗
November 11, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Long flights to #KubeCon next week... Open to suggestions for movies and series to watch on the flights.

Ideally #scifi, but open to all good suggestions 👍
November 5, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Ugh... Russia fining Google more money than exists in the entire world is yet more evidence we're witnessing the balkanising of the internet and heading into a new cold war with the same old political blocs building their own information networks, and importantly and dangerously, their own AIs.

#AI
November 1, 2024 at 11:53 AM
It was an honour to present the opening keynote, join a panel, and sign copies of my new book at the *AI For The Rest of Us* conference in London yesterday!

#AI #AIbooks
October 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Putting the finishing touches to next week's #Dockercon session.

Can't wait to be back at one of my all-time favourite events 🤗 #Wasm #WebAssembly #Kubernetes
September 28, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Time to start work on the #DockerCon presentations.

Wonder what I'm gonna talk about 😉
September 20, 2023 at 4:06 PM
The schedule for Civo Navigate is the best I've EVER seen!

Some day 1 picks:

- Real World Server-Side Wasm - @rawkode.academy
- The Future of Serverless is Wasm - @technosophos.bsky.social
- Containers & microVMs - @alexellis.bsky.social

Ping me for a DISCOUNT CODE.
www.civo.com/navigate/sch...
August 29, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Ice block on the office computer to keep it cool. Whereas I'm sweating like something very unpleasant 😫
June 19, 2023 at 11:39 AM
This is a brilliant article on the current state of WebAssembly and WASI

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/what-is-wasi/
What is WASI?
blog.yoshuawuyts.com
June 6, 2023 at 10:03 AM
New blog post: WebAssembly and containerd - How it works

This one started out as some personal notes to aid my own understanding... then i figured it might be useful to someone else 🤷👍

https://nigelpoulton.com/webassembly-and-containerd-how-it-works/
May 9, 2023 at 1:37 PM
A few years ago I wrote a book to help as many people as possible learn Kubernetes...

To see it listed as a best-seller and with 1,500 reviews is genuinely mind blowing.

Thank you soooo much to everyone who's taken the time to leave a review 👊👊
May 8, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Loads of cool stuff in Docker Desktop 4.19... I'm installing right now 💪💪
May 3, 2023 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Nigel Poulton
Learning eBPF is only just outside the top 100 of *all Software Development books* on Amazon, that's blowing my mind!

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-eBPF-Programming-Observability-Networking/dp/1098135121/
May 2, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Just finished Star Trek Picard

Wow. Just wow!

As someone who grew up on Star Trek TNG, this was simply the best television I've ever seen. 👏👏👏
May 1, 2023 at 4:04 PM
I didn't attend a single session or keynote at #KubeConEU

But... i net sooooo many wonderful people.

This guy, Alain, drove home and brought me two gifts when he learned i liked Star Trek.

What a great human being!
April 27, 2023 at 6:26 PM
I was blown away at KubeCon by these two amazing people who lined up for an hour to be the first in line for signed copies of the Klingon and Starfleet editions of "The Kubernetes Book"
April 27, 2023 at 6:15 PM
You know you're obsessing a bit too much about #WebAssembly and associated projects when your extended family buys you a custom #runwasi mug

❤️👍💪🤓
April 27, 2023 at 10:39 AM