Containers: Secure or Not, Here They Are

Containers: Secure or Not, Here They Are

Containers are here. And it doesn’t mater whether or not containers are a transitional technology (they are, as our JP Morgenthal covered in Containers are designed for an antiquate application architecture) until ...
Puppet Labs talks Docker and Containerization

Puppet Labs talks Docker and Containerization

Last week Puppet Labs released a new version of Puppet Enterprise that brought forward a number of new features, including those to Puppet Node manager that helps automate the provisioning of infrastructure ...
| | docker, puppet
Linux Containers & Security Implications

Linux Containers & Security Implications

Does the word “container” intimate containment, suggesting that containers are inherently secure? If it does, any such assumption of security may be the broadest Docker vulnerability to date. “One of the biggest ...
Containers Are Designed For an Antiquated Application Architecture

Containers Are Designed For an Antiquated Application Architecture

In his most recent GigaOm article, “We’re finally headed towards autonomous, self-migrating containers for cloud-application automation“, David Linthicum discusses the value that containers, such as Docker and CoreOS Rocket, are bringing to ...
Webinar:  Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads

Webinar: Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads

As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses ...
Microsoft partners with Docker to bring containers to Windows Server

Microsoft partners with Docker to bring containers to Windows Server

Docker has taken the DevOps world by storm, and that has caught the attention of Microsoft. Now, Microsoft and Docker are teaming up to bring native support for the container technology to ...
Why We Build in Docker Containers

Why We Build in Docker Containers

We are using Docker as a virtualization technology for our continuous delivery/deployment pipelines, in Rultor.com. We experimented with other technologies and Docker’s approach proved to be the best fit for our needs ...
| | containers, docker, rultor
Bringing Collaboration, Orchestration and Lifecycle Management to Docker Containers

Bringing Collaboration, Orchestration and Lifecycle Management to Docker Containers

As you most likely know, Docker is a Linux container technology that stands to revolutionize or standardize the delivery mechanism of applications and services in the cloud. Docker, which just turned 1.0, ...
| | docker, elasticbox
Docker tinkers with Docker Hub for performance improvements

Docker tinkers with Docker Hub for performance improvements

Docker’s strengthening its infrastructure components to accommodate the volume of use and wide range of use cases that inevitably crop up from such hockey-stick growth. The latest improvements come by way of ...
A Simple Service Discovery Solution for Docker

A Simple Service Discovery Solution for Docker

The ambassador pattern is an approach for multi-host Docker application deployment. It helps containers on different hosts to discover each other and communicate. Despite of the variants, the idea can be illustrated as ...
| | docker, visual ops