Cloud-Native Development

Why is Docker so popular? The technical advantages of containers have a lot to do with it. However, part of the answer is also cultural: Docker is a status symbol that companies ...

The latest release of the Kubernetes container orchestration engine, which arrived this week, has something for almost everybody in the container community. In general, new Kubernetes 1.8 features fall into two broad ...

At its Tech-Ed 2017 conference this week, SAP made a major commitment to employing the Kubernetes container orchestration engine alongside the implemention of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service environment it already employs in ...

Mirantis made a name for itself by providing a curated distribution of the open-source OpenStack cloud management framework that organizations could deploy themselves or have Mirantis manage on their behalf. The company ...

Rancher Labs originally developed Cattle as an orchestration engine specifically optimized for Docker containers. Now, with its technical preview of the Rancher 2.0 management framework unveiled this week, the company is signaling it ...

I have been managing web apps for about 10 years. I realized a while ago that if I’m going to sleep and not spend evenings and weekends fighting fires, then three things ...

The ability of Docker containers to scale seamlessly is one of Docker’s main selling points. But scalability only matters for companies that need large deployments. This begs the question: Can containers benefit ...

As IT organizations embrace cloud-native applications based on microservices, many of them are starting to question the degree to which they want to manage IT infrastructure versus devoting more resources to building ...

Which groups of people do containers benefit? More than you might think. Containers help not just developers and admins, but people who fill several other roles as well. Containers (and Docker containers, ...

The team that developed the Marathon container orchestration engine is now throwing its weight behind Kubernetes. Mesosphere recently announced it is now providing access to a beta implementation of Kubernetes as an ...