Cloud-Native Development

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 ...

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
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 ...

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
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 ...

Panamax, Docker management for humans
Panamax, a new open source tool from CenturyLink brings the promise of building complex Docker based environments like a child using Legos. The tool is a management interface for managing and building ...

Gartner gives Docker security an ambivalent thumbs up
As organizations continue to evaluate wider spread use of containerization to enable continuous deployment, security concerns around the wildly popular Docker keep popping up. Last week, an analyst with Gartner published a ...

Native support for Docker apps coming soon to Parallels
When I think of Parallels, the first thing that comes to mind is virtual machines. I have used Parallels for years as a means of running a virtualized instance of a Windows ...

Shooting a Rocket Over Docker’s Bow
As momentum continues to build for the Docker containerization platform, some of the open source project’s biggest contributors argue that it has lost its way. Priorities have shifted at Docker from the ...