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Mirantis to Support Kubernetes on AWS
Mirantis made a name for itself by providing a curated distribution of the open-source OpenStack cloud management framework that organizations could deploy themselves or have Mirantis manage on their behalf. The company ...
Rancher Labs Embraces Kubernetes
Rancher Labs originally developed Cattle as an orchestration engine specifically optimized for Docker containers. Now, with its technical preview of the Rancher 2.0 management framework unveiled this week, the company is signaling it ...
Mendix Adds Kubernetes Support to Low-Code Platform
As a provider of a low-code application development environment, Mendix realized early on it could leverage investments being made by open-source software consortiums such as Cloud Foundry to lower its development costs ...
Microsoft: Embrace Containers or Face Extinction
A principal technology evangelist for Microsoft told attendees this week at the NextStep 2017 conference hosted by OutSystems that organizations that don’t adopt containers as the fundamental unit of work for building ...
OutSystems Charts Container Strategy
At a NextStep 2017 conference this week, OutSystems signaled it will marry its low-code application development platform with containers. Gonçalo Borrêga, head of product for OutSystems, says the company will provide tools ...
Environment Parity: Why Docker Matters More for Linux than Windows
Docker runs on any Linux distribution, but only on select versions of Windows. That begs the question: Is Docker as useful on Windows as it is on Linux? Docker and the Environment ...
Why PaaS vs. CaaS Is the Wrong Question to Ask
You’ve heard of platform as a service (PaaS). You’ve heard of containers as a service (CaaS). Wondering what the difference is between a PaaS and a CaaS, and which solution is best ...
How Many CaaS Platforms Support Swarm? Not Many
If you want to use Docker Swarm mode to orchestrate containers, finding a container environment that supports Swarm can be tough. That begs the question: Is the future looking dim for Docker ...
Is Docker Appropriate for Smaller Companies?
The ability of Docker containers to scale seamlessly is one of Docker’s main selling points. But scalability only matters for companies that need large deployments. This begs the question: Can containers benefit ...
StackPointCloud Unfurls Managed Kubernetes Service
As IT organizations embrace cloud-native applications based on microservices, many of them are starting to question the degree to which they want to manage IT infrastructure versus devoting more resources to building ...
