containers
Docker Allies with Canonical on Ubuntu Support
Docker and Canonical have formed an alliance under which the Docker CS Container Engine will be commercially supported by both vendors. While Docker containers have been widely deployed on Ubuntu for some ...
The Benefits of Kubernetes, According to Red Hat
Is Kubernetes the best orchestration tool? Red Hat thinks so. Here’s what Brian Gracely, Red Hat’s director of Product Strategy, had to say in a recent interview about its features and performance ...
Docker: Not Faster than VMs, but More Efficient
Are containers faster than virtual machines? The answer may seem to be yes. But if you look closely, you realize that, although Docker does offer some important advantages in the realm of ...
5 Common Myths about Containers
Containers are faster. Containers work only on Linux. Containers are insecure. These are all examples of myths about Docker and other container platforms that continue to persist. Some of these misconceptions reflect ...
Survey: Container Use Maturing Rapidly
Most of the containers being employed today can be found in web applications that are, for the most part, stateless. But that’s only the beginning. A new survey of 648 IT professionals ...
Containers Moving Beyond Servers
So far, containers have been used mostly to develop or deploy apps to servers—specifically, x86 servers. But containers have a future beyond the data center, too. From internet of things (IoT) devices, to ...
CoreOS Deploys Operators for Kubernetes
While the Kubernetes container orchestration framework has generated a lot of enthusiasm, mastering it can be a significant challenge for IT organizations. To make Kubernetes more accessible, CoreOS has created Operators, a ...
How Open is the Container Ecosystem?
Docker is an open-source platform. But how open is the container ecosystem as a whole? That’s a question worth considering as organizations make plans to migrate to containers. To be sure, most ...
ClusterHQ Eases Docker Data Management Headaches
One of the aggravating challenges developers and IT operations teams regularly face when working with Docker containers is the need to move data around lots of different instances of containers. Aiming to ...
Amazon Simplifies DevOps with Amazon Linux AMI Container
Amazon is offering Amazon Linux AMI, a Linux distribution tailored for the cloud, for offline use—and it’s using Docker to do it. Amazon Linux AMI is a Linux-based operating system image that ...