Cloud-Native Platforms

A closer look at VMware’s vSphere Integrated Containers
At VMworld 2015, VMware announced vSphere Integrated Containers and the VMware Photon Platform to extend its presence for containers and microservices. The new technologies position VMware as a major player for containers ...

LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part Two
Last time, ContainerJournal corralled comments from Dustin Kirkland, Strategist, Container Offerings, Canonical on the LXD hypervisor for LXC containers that work with Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux OS for Part One of LXD, the ...

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 ...

Monitor Docker container log data with Graylog
I live just north of Houston. Houston is focused primarily on the oil industry and doesn’t have much of a “Silicon Valley” vibe—Texas has Austin for that—so I don’t get to talk ...

Docker Toolbox Replaces Boot2Docker in Docker 1.8
With the release of Docker 1.8, Docker has replaced Boot2Docker with Docker Toolbox. Docker Toolbox provides an ideal platform environment to learn Docker without having to manually install and configure a virtual ...

Ruxit promises greater visibility with Deep Docker Monitoring
Microservices is a growing trend in IT—driven by DevOps and container technologies. One of the challenges organizations face as they adopt microservices architectures is monitoring and managing the increasingly complex environment. Ruxit ...

CloudBees: Prepare for the Next Sea Change in IT
There is a sea change happening within IT that is enabling IT departments to provide more value faster to the business, consumer and user. In this paper, we will discuss how Docker ...

Four ways containers threaten VMware’s 10 year dominance
Can containers threaten VMware’s beachhead? Yes. Combined with an exploding ecosystem, they address the top use-cases and add something additional. I started working with VMware during its first ESX beta (nearly 15 ...

DevOps Teams: Containers Will Help You Become Future Ready
Container frameworks are emerging as a superior choice to create, manage, and run distributed applications in a scalable and secure fashion. Docker’s growth is testimony to the fact. There are 100 million ...

Containers Are Designed For an Antiquated Application Architecture
In his most recent GigaOm article, “We’re finally headed towards autonomous, self-migrating containers for cloud-application automation“, David Linthicum discusses the value that containers, such as Docker and CoreOS Rocket, are bringing to ...