Cloud-Native Development

Docker’s popularity has been driven in large part by its promise of letting admins build an application once and then deploy it anywhere. But this promise can be misleading when you are ...

If your company is like most, homespun software applications permeate the organization. And chances are, the majority of these applications are running on outdated architecture. But don’t dismay: Re-architecting those applications on ...

Docker recently turned 6 years old. That makes this a fitting time to step back and think about how the conversation surrounding Docker has evolved over those years. My goal in this ...

Is Kubernetes too much of a good thing? In the world of cloud technologies, working in open source generally means you have more and better choices. If your code is built on ...

I was asked recently to write a containers-versus-unikernels article, and I said, “Sure, but it won’t be the article you think it is because I share Per Buer’s sentiment that unikernels are ...

The release team in charge of Kubernetes this week released an update to Kubernetes that formally adds support for Windows Server. That support means that, in terms of being able to support ...

In part one of this two-part series on what has transpired in the cloud-native community—and specifically the Kubernetes ecosystem in the past year—we discussed the emergence of Kubernetes and cloud-native as the ...

Anyone who says six years ago they fully appreciated the impact Docker containers would have on IT probably isn’t being entirely truthful. But as Docker celebrates its official sixth birthday today, it’s ...

I had recently taken some time to reflect on thoughts from the passing year in the cloud-native ecosystem. After talking with many people and seeing many types of deployments and use cases, ...

Kubernetes pipelines are about to change the way we do things. Kubernetes and microservices will drive us away from our old way of doing things to a much leaner method of software ...