Cloud-Native Development Archives

Why A Successful Microservices Strategy Starts with DevOps

We started 2017 with predictions on what the year will bring for enterprise DevOps adoption, and as we approach the end of the year, we have seen more enterprises using DevOps-leading practices ...

contributor | October 30, 2017 | agile, containers, devops, microservices, waterfall

Using Containers to Improve the People Part of Your Business

Most discussions of containers focus on how they improve software delivery processes and complement other software tools. Equally important, however, are the benefits that containers offer to humans. Here’s a look. The ...

Christopher Tozzi | October 27, 2017 | containers, developers, devops, IT operations, IT Ops, people, processes, technology

Cisco Allies with Google on Kubernetes

Google and Cisco Systems today announced a strategic alliance in which the two companies will work closely to extend the reach of Google cloud services based on Kubernetes and other container technologies ...

Mike Vizard | October 25, 2017 | cisco, Cisco Systems, cloud, containers, google, Google Cloud Platform, hardware, kubernetes, microservices, on-premises

CNCF Adds 2 Projects to Better Secure Containers

At the Open Source Summit Europe 2017 conference today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it is adding two projects to its portfolio to address the security of container images and ...

Mike Vizard | October 24, 2017 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, containers, notary, open source, Open Source Summit Europe 2017, security, The Linux Foundation, The Update Framework

Docker Inc. to Support Multiple Serverless Computing Frameworks

Docker Inc. plans to give customers the option to deploy one of several open-source serverless computing frameworks on top of the Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) container-as-a-service (CaaS) environment. Rather than attempting to ...

Mike Vizard | October 20, 2017 | CaaS, containers as a service, Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker Inc., microservices, open source, platform, serverless computing

IBM Joins Docker to Shift Apps to the Cloud

Docker Inc. at the DockerCon Europe 2017 conference extended its alliance with IBM as part of an effort to entice more IT organizations to lift and shift existing legacy applications into the ...

Mike Vizard | October 18, 2017 | alliance, containers, Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker Inc., DockerCon Europe, IBM, microservices, microsoft, Modernize Traditional Application program

Using CI/CD Over Containerization to Drive Down Pre-Production Costs

Let’s look at traditional, linear application development process. It follows a sequential methodology, which means the bugs that are present in the current build will have to wait for the next build ...

contributor | October 17, 2017 | CI/CD, containers, containization, continuous delivery, continuous integration, pre-production environment, virtual machines, VMs

Cloud Foundry Embraces Kubernetes Runtime Environment

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), at a Cloud Foundry Summit Europe conference, announced it will make the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR) the default runtime for deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters, using ...

Mike Vizard | October 11, 2017 | CaaS, CFF, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, containers, containers as a service, kubernetes, microservices, open source, PaaS, platform as a service, runtime

VMs, Serverless, LXC and Beyond: What is the Opposite of Docker?

You know what Docker is. But what is Docker not? What is the opposite of Docker? There are several ways to think about that question, all of which help to highlight Docker’s ...

Christopher Tozzi | October 10, 2017 | docker, kubernetes, lxc, serverless, virtual machines, Wine

Red Hat Aims to Scale Container Storage

Managing storage in a container environment presents some unique challenges: Not only is there more data being created faster, the number of microservices trying to call the same data increases exponentially. To ...