CoreOS Unfurls Hybrid Kubernetes Cloud Initiative

CoreOS Unfurls Hybrid Kubernetes Cloud Initiative

At the CoreOS Fest 2017 conference today, CoreOS outlined a hybrid cloud computing strategy based on Kubernetes clusters deployed on public clouds and on-premises. CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi says one of the ...
The 5 Killer Features that Set Docker Apart

The 5 Killer Features that Set Docker Apart

Why did Docker containers become so popular? To understand the answer, you have to identify Docker’s killer features — the ones that set Docker apart from other container frameworks, as well as ...
F5 Networks Makes a Container Connection

F5 Networks Makes a Container Connection

Now that microservices enabled by containers are finding their way into production environments, IT organizations are discovering that managing contention for IT infrastructure resources is a bigger challenge than ever. To make ...
What is a Container Orchestrator, Anyway?

What is a Container Orchestrator, Anyway?

Container orchestration has become a hot topic following Docker’s ascent. There are lots of orchestrators out there, and people tend to have strong opinions about which one is best. But in this ...
Red Hat Acquires Codenvy to Round Out OpenShift.io

Red Hat Acquires Codenvy to Round Out OpenShift.io

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of time developers spend managing local infrastructure resources, Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring Codenvy, a provider of a workspaces ...
IBM Teams up with Google, Lyft to Advance Container Networks

IBM Teams up with Google, Lyft to Advance Container Networks

While some progress has been made in creating a standard network interface for containers, the level of interoperability between containers themselves and other types of computing platforms still leaves much to be ...
Container Orchestrators You Might Have Missed

Container Orchestrators You Might Have Missed

Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and Mesos Marathon are well-known container orchestrators. But they’re not the only ones. Here’s a look at container orchestration tools and frameworks you might have overlooked. I like to ...
Forrester: Rise of Containers Forcing IT Automation

Forrester: Rise of Containers Forcing IT Automation

Now that 31 percent of IT organizations are deploying containers, Forrester Research says it’s only a matter of time before IT operations that continue to rely on manual process will be overwhelmed ...
Chef Extends Automation Reach to Containers

Chef Extends Automation Reach to Containers

IT operations teams are about to be confronted with an unprecedented number of microservices based on containers moving into production environments. As such, more reliance on IT automation frameworks is all but ...
CNCF Aims to Make Container Network Interface a Standard

CNCF Aims to Make Container Network Interface a Standard

Container networking standards were advanced today following a unanimous decision by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to accept the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as one of the 10 container projects the ...