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.
Canonical Targets New Container Workloads with LXC and LXD 2.0 Release
LXC and LXD — Canonical‘s answer (sort of) to CoreOS and Docker — are finally out in stable form. Are they ready to make their mark on the open source container ecosystem? ...
New Docker Survey Highlights Container Adoption and Orchestration Trends
Who’s using Docker in production, which workloads are they deploying on containers and how are they orchestrating Docker containers? A new survey sponsored by the company reveals some enlightening data regarding these ...
Kubernetes Beats Swarm for Container Management on OpenStack Clouds
Docker Swarm may not be as popular as you think, at least for OpenStack admins. That’s according to the latest OpenStack User Survey, which shows Kubernetes enjoying a huge lead over other ...
ThousandEyes Integrates Docker Containers and Network Monitoring
Network monitoring company ThousandEyes has become the latest vendor to integrate Docker containers into a commercial product. This week, the company announced that one of its monitoring tools, Enterprise Agents, can now ...
Kubernetes vs. Swarm: Which Container Orchestrator is Best for You?
Kubernetes and Docker Swarm have both evolved into great clustering and container orchestration tools. But there’s a lot of debate about which one is best for managing your data center and containers ...
Rancher Debuts Management Platform for Swarm and Kubernetes Clusters
Need an orchestrator for your container orchestrator? That’s essentially what Rancher Labs says it has delivered with the release of Rancher 1.0, an open source platform for managing Kubernetes and Docker Swarm ...
Survey: Container and Microservice Adoption Rates Are Set to Rise
Containers have made lots of headlines, but how many organizations are actually using them in production data centers? So far, only about one in five — but that figure is set to ...
ElasticBox Debuts Kubernetes-Based Container Manager, ElasticKube
ElasticBox thinks containers are ready for primetime — and it has launched a Kubernetes-based enterprise container manager, ElasticKube, to prove it. The platform, which ElasticBox announced on March 11, basically takes Kubernetes ...
Kubernetes Fights Back against Docker’s Claims on Swarm Performance
Docker made headlines by saying its Swarm container orchestration platform out-performs the competition. Now, Kubernetes is firing back loudly, questioning whether the Docker benchmark tests are actually applicable to real-world clusters — ...
Docker: Swarm Beats Google Kubernetes in Container Cluster Orchestration
Docker says its native container orchestration platform, Swarm, outperforms Kubernetes by up to 500 percent overall. That’s according to results published this week from benchmark tests by a third-party observer that Docker ...
