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Containerd to Drive Expansion of Container Ecosystem in 2018
Now that the containerd project has formally reached a 1.0 status under the auspices of the Cloud Native Container Foundation (CNCF), one of the hallmarks of 2018 will be a significant expansion ...
What Does Managed Kubernetes Mean, Anyway?
As Kubernetes has come to dominate the container world, managed Kubernetes has become an important strategy for companies seeking to monetize Kubernetes. But what does “managed Kubernetes” actually mean? That depends on ...
InfluxData Gives Prometheus Monitoring a Real-Time Analytics Edge
There’s no shortage of tools for monitoring containers these days, and an increasing number of commercial offerings are incorporating the open source Prometheus monitoring software managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ...
Canonical Teams with Rancher Labs on Kubernetes
Provisioning a Kubernetes cluster has become a lot easier in recent months, but the daily management of the platform still can be challenging. To make it simpler to manage a Kubernetes cluster, ...
Joyent Taps LunchBadger Serverless Framework
Joyent, a unit of Samsung that provides cloud computing services, is teaming up with LunchBadger to deploy a serverless computing framework based on an event-driven architecture on top of Kubernetes clusters. LunchBadger ...
Will 2018 Be the Year of Serverless Computing?
Serverless computing is not new, but it has yet to assume as much importance as containers. Will that change in 2018? The recent KubeCon event suggests serverless is about to explode as ...
Informatica Redesigns iPaaS for Microservices Age
Microservices enabled by containers are about to radically transform how enterprise software is consumed, and one of the first examples is a major revision of integrated platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) environments developed by Informatica ...
Kubernetes’ Big Triumph of 2017: Killing Docker
What was the biggest change of 2017 in the world of containers? Without a doubt, it was Kubernetes’s rise to dominance. At the start of 2017, Kubernetes was just an orchestrator. It ...
The Rise of the Service Mesh for Microservices Apps
Service meshes are the latest, greatest thing in the microservices and containers world. Let’s take a look at what a service mesh is and how they are being used to improve microservices ...
Tackling Security with Container Deployments
Companies are leveraging containers on a massive scale to rapidly package and deliver software applications. But it can be difficult for organizations to get a clear understanding of the components and dependencies ...
