5 Docker Best Practices You Should Follow

5 Docker Best Practices You Should Follow

Docker is not the only container technology out there, but it is the de facto standard bearer for containers and it’s the most recognizable brand among the container players. Support for Docker ...
‘Containers-as-a-Service’ Is a Hot Trend

‘Containers-as-a-Service’ Is a Hot Trend

How do you know when a new concept or technology has truly achieved mainstream critical mass? When it gets converted to the ubiquitous “as-a-Service” alternative. Containers are still sort of the new ...
How To Choose a Cloud Platform for Containers

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 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 ...
Red Hat and Black Duck team up to deliver a more secure container platform

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 ...
Docker Security Evolving to Advance Adoption

Docker Security Evolving to Advance Adoption

It’s a time-honored story arc at this point; an emerging technology gains rabid affection among practitioners eager to embrace its inherent benefits, then related security concerns begin to cloud the horizon, threatening ...
Docker is a tidal wave: Ride it or drown

Docker is a tidal wave: Ride it or drown

Docker is to containers what Kleenex is to facial tissue, Coca Cola is to soda, and QTips is to cotton swabs—the brand is essentially synonymous with its underlying product. The meteoric rise ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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