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Ensure Cyber Essentials compliance with Droplet containers
Compliance, compliance, compliance! It may not be the word of the decade, but, in its various forms and applications, compliance has shaped much of what the IT world revolves around—I think of it as an intense, radioactive and constantly evolving star at the centre of our solar system. Well, to be fair, the ‘radioactivity’ is […]

Droplet Container Support Scenarios
Back when I started with Droplet (it will be two years in Sept 2021!) we had quite a simple product. Back then we just had two container types and a limited number of places where we supported them. Since then we have many different container types running both in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Additionally, […]

Droplet Networking (Part 2 of 2) Walls Of Fire
Sorry, it just amuses me that we use the term “firewall”. Yup, I know it comes from the construction industry, as a way of saving people’s lives and the integrity of the building. I sometimes wish hackers and other bad actors did have to walk-through fire as part of their punishment – but I guess […]

Droplet Networking (Part 1 of 2)
So this blogpost is all about our networking and our built-in firewall. This is intended as a primer for geeks like me who like nitty-gritty details. You don’t need to know ANY of this stuff to use our product or deploy our product. In this first part, I will talk about the raw IP of […]

Droplet containers on Google Chromebook – Technical Requirements
One of the most common questions that come up around Droplet containers on Google Chromebooks is the hardware specification. Whilst that is important and significant what I usually direct customers to validate first is what kernel generation is being used by the Chromebook. You see, it’s entirely possible that a very modern and powerful Chromebook […]

Using and Managing the Droplet File Share Service
There many, many ways to get data in and out of the Droplet container – my own personal favorite is just to use my NAS-based storage on my network – as it gives me a centralized location for all my storage needs on a super-fast network. There other ways of course and that include using […]
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