As Editor-in-chief of DevOps.com and Container Journal, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology. Alan has founded and helped several technology ventures, including StillSecure, where he guided the company in bringing innovative and effective networking and security solutions to the marketplace. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing on DevOps.com and Network World, his commentary about the state of technology is followed closely by many industry insiders via his blog and podcast, "Ashimmy, After All These Years" (www.ashimmy.com). Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.
CenturyLink open sources its own Docker dog food
There are many companies that are parasites on the open source community. They take, take, take but don’t give anything back to the open source community in spite of their protests that ...
Suse Linux supports Docker
There has been much written about CoreOS support for Docker. Red Hat is one of the leading contributors of Docker code. However, there is another major Linux distro that has added extensive ...
CloudBees and Jenkins support Kubernetes with 3 new plugins
In conjunction with the release of Kubernetes v1.0 and the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company and managers of the Jenkins community announced three new plugins ...
Google Kubernetes v1.0 released – it just got real
Today the good folks at Google Cloud Platform announced the release of Kubernetes v1.0. While acknowledging that there is still much work to be done, this milestone means Kubernetes is ready for ...
CoreOS Tectonic takes another step forward with Kubernetes 1.0 release
CoreOS announced today that they had released Tectonic Preview in conjunction with the release of Kubernetes 1.0. Tectonic Preview is the next step in moving Tectonic to general release. Previously it was ...
Migrating to a Container based Microservice architecture
One of the things we hear over and over again about DevOps, Containers and Microservices is “Sounds great, but how do we get started?” You don’t just add water and watch it ...
Nine must read container blog posts
Don’t be afraid to admit it. If you are like many folks, even in IT, you may have heard about containers, Docker and the like, but you aren’t 100% up to speed ...
Welcome to Container Journal
Today we launched Container Journal. The url for the site if you haven’t noticed is http://www.cloudnativenow.com. The site is dedicated to spotlighting everything about containers and computing (as opposed to containers like in the Container ...
Sold out Dockercon highlights Dockers coming of age
Docker grows up with release of version 1.0 There is little doubt that Docker is one of the hottest names in tech. Anything written about them seems to be a magnet for ...
Docker acquires Orchard, makers of Fig
First acquisition by Docker bring tools, talent and geography to hot container start up. Docker today announced that they are making their first acquisition. Docker is acquiring Orchard. In terms of scope ...
