Cloud-Native Platforms

Amazon ECR, an EC2 Container Registry Is Now Generally Available With Twistlock Technologies
Amazon EC2 announced today that their Container Registry (ECR) is now generally available. A blog that details the service and its components can be found here. Like other container registries, Amazon ECR is ...

Docker Registry Deployment Patterns
A container registry is best thought of as an artifact store for Docker images. Once your CI system has validated the container image for behavior, performance, content and security, it needs a ...

A closer look at container monitoring
Along with orchestration and security, monitoring is a key challenge facing organizations that have adopted containerization technologies. Especially in production environments, you have to ensure that all your microservices perform well and ...

CoreOS releases Tectonic to General Availability
After months if not years of development and beta testing with many users CoreOS is taking the wraps off its Tectonic complete container infrastructure stack. We have reported several times on Tectonic ...

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 ...