Cloud-Native Development
Make Containers Contain and Work for You
Docker containers have become an important tool in the developer’s toolbox. Adoption of this technology has been phenomenal. To date, Docker has surpassed 2 billion container downloads, which increased at a tremendous ...
Is This the Beginning of the End for OpenStack?
I was struck by a conversation I had earlier this year during the OpenStack conference in Austin with a technical architect from one of the bigger players. He was seeing baffled IT ...
Containers: Not One to Rule Them All
In the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, there was one ring to rule them all. Fortunately, when it comes to the container platform ecosystem, there’s far less of a monarchy. Not all ...
Linux Containers: Comparing LXC and Docker
As industry moves beyond the virtual machine (VM) consolidation paradigm, several types of containers have become prominent. Two flavors in particular currently enjoy the lion’s share of deployments on the Linux operating ...
Got Bugs? Use Snapshots to Speed Dev, Testing
Software development is far more streamlined today than it ever has been. Sites such as GitHub, continuous integration and delivery processes (CI/CD) and technologies such as containers have sped up the development ...
Building Microservices: A Few Considerations
Recently I spoke at Microservices Day in Bangalore on the topic, “What Do You Need to Consider When Building Microservices?” I wanted to share my company’s experiences when migrating our platform as a ...
CoreOS Launches “Stacknetes” Initiative at OpenStack Summit
The promised integration of the Kubernetes container orchestration framework and OpenStack got underway this week at the OpenStack Summit Austin 2016 conference with the launch of a “Stacknetes” initiative by CoreOS. Launched ...
Robin Systems Adds Container Support to Holistic Management Platform
The rapid rise of containers is starting to force some uncomfortable conversations about how enterprise IT as a whole is managed. While many IT organizations are now wrestling with how to manage ...
Intel to work with CoreOs, Mirantis and Google to Integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack
In a development that promises to have major implications for how private clouds are ultimately built and managed, Intel, CoreOS and Mirantis this week revealed they are working with Google to port ...
Docker Announces Native Apps for Windows and Mac
Docker put containers on the map and has driven the mainstream container craze over the past few years. Docker has been adopted by and integrated into most major platforms and cloud services ...
