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Will Containers Replace Virtual Machines?
A question I am often asked, is will containers replace virtual machines? With containers being lightweight, portable and with fast startup time, it would seem to be a no brainer. While containers ...
Docker seeds source code, container market benefits
Docker handed over a good bit of its code as open source to the Open Container Initiative / AppC with the Linux Foundation in charge of it. When Docker seeds source code like that it ...
CIS Docker Security Guidance Plus Halo Helps DevOps Shops Harden Docker Implementations
As of April 29th of this year, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has released its Docker v1.6 Benchmark v1.0, a security guidance for industry professionals seeking to secure their Docker v1.6 ...
Optimizing Your Container Environment: Solutions for Healthy Containers
As dev teams keep on flocking to container-based environments like Docker, ops need to have full visibility into both testing and production. With the popularity of Docker on a steep rise — ...
Containers and the Search for the “Killer App”
VisiCalc for early PCs. E-mail for the Internet. SMS for mobile. Every major tech platform we’ve seen has had the benefit of a “killer application” that transformed it from “toy” or “cool ...
Shippable SaaS – How Docker is Reshaping the way we Buy and Consume Software
One could say that we are living in the Golden Age of Software – specifically Software-as-a-Service. As a business or consumer today, you have a nearly endless supply of software solutions ready ...
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 ...
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 ...