‘Containers-as-a-Service’ Is a Hot Trend

‘Containers-as-a-Service’ Is a Hot Trend

How do you know when a new concept or technology has truly achieved mainstream critical mass? When it gets converted to the ubiquitous “as-a-Service” alternative. Containers are still sort of the new ...
Container Security Challenges: Are Container Scanners Enough?

Container Security Challenges: Are Container Scanners Enough?

How secure are containers? Not very, according to open source company Red Hat, which has published a blog post blasting the container ecosystem for lacking good security processes. Here’s a synopsis of ...
How To Choose a Cloud Platform for Containers

How To Choose a Cloud Platform for Containers

Cloud services have been a major battleground for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft for years now. Leveraging cloud platforms has already become commoditized to some extent, though, to the point that there wasn’t ...
CoreOS raises the bar for container security with Rocket 1.0

CoreOS raises the bar for container security with Rocket 1.0

CoreOS is a sort of frenemy of Docker—a competitor and partner at the same time—and continues to be a thorn in Docker’s side every once in a while. Now is one of ...
New York Times Releases ‘Gizmo’—an Open Source Microservices Toolkit

New York Times Releases ‘Gizmo’—an Open Source Microservices Toolkit

The New York Times has released a microservices toolkit called “Gizmo”. Gizmo has been made available as open source software. It is based on the Go programming language (Golang), and provides standardized ...
Red Hat and Black Duck team up to deliver a more secure container platform

Red Hat and Black Duck team up to deliver a more secure container platform

As a security professional it’s frustrating that security is always an afterthought. Innovative tools and techniques emerge and gain momentum until they become virtually ubiquitous—and then someone eventually stops and says, “Wait ...
For Container Security, Automation Is Key

For Container Security, Automation Is Key

Regardless of the IT infrastructure element in question, if it connects to a network – even through proxies or human intermediaries – eventually someone will find a security flaw and exploit it ...
| | auotmation, security
Kickstart Docker in Your Enterprise

Kickstart Docker in Your Enterprise

The world of virtualization has continued to change and evolve over the last 15 years with VMware leading the charge. Even though the idea of containerization has been in the operations world ...
| | docker tools, kubernetes
A closer look at container monitoring

A closer look at container monitoring

Along with orchestration and security, monitoring is a key challenge facing organizations that have adopted containerization technologies. Especially in production environments, you have to ensure that all your microservices perform well and ...
Meet Clair, open source vulnerability analysis on containers

Meet Clair, open source vulnerability analysis on containers

DockerCon Barcelona has lots of buzz coming out of it and we will be covering all of the action here this week.  We wanted to lead off with a story that was ...