Cloud-Native Development

How To Choose a Cloud Platform for Containers
Cloud services have been a major battleground for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft for years now. Leveraging cloud platforms has already become commoditized to some extent, though, to the point that there wasn’t ...

CoreOS raises the bar for container security with Rocket 1.0
CoreOS is a sort of frenemy of Docker—a competitor and partner at the same time—and continues to be a thorn in Docker’s side every once in a while. Now is one of ...

Docker, CoreOS, IBM, AWS, Google, Red Hat & enterprise CTOs discuss disruption, competition & collaboration in containers & the Cloud
Container technology is definitely shaking up the software delivery market. It is not only developer support which is driving the prominence of containers within future enterprise IT, decision makers are also already ...

Red Hat and Black Duck team up to deliver a more secure container platform
As a security professional it’s frustrating that security is always an afterthought. Innovative tools and techniques emerge and gain momentum until they become virtually ubiquitous—and then someone eventually stops and says, “Wait ...

Former Microsoft, Citrix and VMware engineers launch new container platform
One of the interesting things that occurs in business is the evolution as people struggling in the trenches take matters into their own hands, or as employees get the inspiration to take ...

DeepSQL optimizes containerized databases on Docker
Containerized apps may be the engine that drives business these days, but data is the fuel that keeps the engine going for many apps. The need for containerized data has been a ...

Docker Patterns – The Volatile Configuration Pattern
It was about 25 years ago when the Gang of Four initially got together. From that confluence of vision came the notion of Object Oriented Design Techniques. If DevOps is about adopting ...

A closer look at VMware’s vSphere Integrated Containers
At VMworld 2015, VMware announced vSphere Integrated Containers and the VMware Photon Platform to extend its presence for containers and microservices. The new technologies position VMware as a major player for containers ...

Stack your containers on a solid foundation
Containers are a hot trend and they are transforming the way companies develop, deploy, and maintain apps. The very existence of ContainerJournal—a site dedicated to news, education, and community building related to ...

LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part Two
Last time, ContainerJournal corralled comments from Dustin Kirkland, Strategist, Container Offerings, Canonical on the LXD hypervisor for LXC containers that work with Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux OS for Part One of LXD, the ...