Christopher Tozzi has covered technology and business news for nearly a decade, specializing in open source, containers, big data, networking and security. He is currently Senior Editor and DevOps Analyst with Fixate.io and Sweetcode.io.
Kubernetes Distribution: What It Is and What It Isn’t
I’m hearing more and more talk these days of Kubernetes distributions. At a high level, I know what folks mean when they use this term. But when you look around the ecosystem, ...
No, Kubernetes is Not the New OpenStack, Says Canonical
It’s easy to think of Kubernetes as the great disruptor of earlier generations of cloud-native platforms, such as OpenStack. But that view would be just as wrong as assuming that Kubernetes and ...
4 Reasons Container Adoption Remains Slowish
Docker is now about 6.5 years old. But evidence suggests that only a minority of production workloads are containerized. Here’s a look at why container adoption is relatively low and what needs ...
Kubernetes and the Challenge of Federation
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could manage multiple Kubernetes clusters using a single tool and interface? Kubernetes would like to let you do this using a feature called federation. The trouble ...
Explaining Kubernetes’ Popularity: It’s the Community, Not the Technology
Everyone everywhere is excited about Kubernetes. The big question is, Why are people are talking so much more about Kubernetes than other container orchestrators? Is Kubernetes functionally superior to other container orchestrators? ...
A High-Level History of the Container Ecosystem, 2013-2019
Docker recently turned 6 years old. That makes this a fitting time to step back and think about how the conversation surrounding Docker has evolved over those years. My goal in this ...
The State of Container Security
To deploy containers in production today, you need to secure them. A growing list of companies want to help you do that. Here’s an overview of the major commercial offerings that cater ...
What Do Containers Have to Do with Being Cloud-Native, Anyway?
“Cloud-native” is a term you frequently hear during conversations about containers. What does it mean, and what does it have to do with containers? Let’s take a look. In a simple sense, ...
Why the Internet of Things Needs Docker Containers
Could Docker be the next big thing in the internet of things (IoT)? That remains to be seen, but this much is clear: Docker containers are well-suited to solve some of the ...
Optimizing Application Performance Using Microservices and Containers
Microservices and containers can help you to build and deploy applications faster. But do these technologies actually make your applications run faster? That depends on how you leverage them. One of the ...
