Cloud-Native Development

Best of 2018: Do FreeBSD and OpenBSD Need Docker Containers?
As we close out 2018, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of ...

Oracle Extends Curated Kubernetes Platform
Oracle this week announced it is extending the scope of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure managed services it provides on top of its managed Kubernetes service to include monitoring, notifications, event, streaming and ...

What is Service Mesh and Why Do We Need It?
In a microservices ecosystem, usually cross-cutting concerns such as service discovery, service-to-service and origin-to-service security, observability and resiliency are deployed via shared asset such as an API gateway or ESB. As a ...

How to Use Minikube to Create Kubernetes Clusters and Deploy Applications
In my previous post, I introduced the Kubernetes platform and discussed some key concepts. Now we are going to create new Kubernetes cluster using Minikube, a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a ...

Portworx Adds Data Migration Tools for Kubernetes
Portworx this week announced it has made possible to migrate both applications data and pod configurations between Kubernetes via a PX-Motion tool that has been added to version 2.0 of the company’s ...

Docker Inc. Launches Docker Desktop Enterprise
At the DockerCon Europe 2018 conference, Docker Inc. today launched Docker Desktop Enterprise, an instance of the widely employed tool for building containerized applications that sports a graphical user interface (GUI) rather ...

What is Kubernetes?
This is the second in a series of four articles on how to implement service mesh for applications running on Kubernetes. The first installment, “What are Containers and Why Do We Need ...

What Are Containers and Why Do We Need Them?
Containers have been around since the early 2000s and architected into Linux in 2007. Due to containers’ small footprint and portability, the same hardware can support an exponentially larger number of containers ...

Container Storage Goes Native
After changing the application development game, containers are rewriting the rules for storage. Now, developers can provision reliable, persistent and stateful storage right inside their containers, without sacrificing development speed. That’s a ...

Rookout Brings Debugging Tools to Kubernetes
As developers rely more on containers running on Kubernetes clusters, many DevOps teams are coming to terms with the inherent challenges associated with debugging those applications. Kubernetes and containers are especially challenging ...