orchestration, abstract, kubernetes, CNAB

Next-Generation Cloud Orchestration: Beyond Kubernetes

There are container orchestration tools other than Kubernetes. Here's what you need to know about them ...
cloud native open source Red Hat OpenShift edge Tanzu Docker Kubernetes

Mesosphere Transforms into D2iQ

Mesosphere this week renamed itself D2iQ as part of an effort to firmly re-establish is bona fides as a provider of tools for automating the deployment of a variety of open source ...
culture Explaining Kubernetes' Popularity

Explaining Kubernetes’ Popularity: It’s the Community, Not the Technology

Everyone everywhere is excited about Kubernetes. The big question is, Why are people are talking so much more about Kubernetes than other container orchestrators? Is Kubernetes functionally superior to other container orchestrators? ...
no-code platform

5 Container Alternatives to Docker

Though Docker still made up 83 percent of containers in 2018, that number is down from 99 percent in 2017. Other container runtime environments including CoreOS rkt, Mesos, lxc and others are ...
What Are Containers and Why

What Are Containers and Why Do We Need Them?

Containers have been around since the early 2000s and architected into Linux in 2007. Due to containers’ small footprint and portability, the same hardware can support an exponentially larger number of containers ...
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Kubernetes on DC/OS

Mesosphere Survey Sees More Kubernetes on DC/OS

There’s often a fair amount of contention between proponents of Kubernetes and the DC/OS platform based on Mesos. Many supporters of Kubernetes are convinced that the platform eventually will acquire all the ...
How Many CaaS Platforms Support Swarm? Not Many

How Many CaaS Platforms Support Swarm? Not Many

If you want to use Docker Swarm mode to orchestrate containers, finding a container environment that supports Swarm can be tough. That begs the question: Is the future looking dim for Docker ...
Measuring Kubernetes' Market Share and Mind Share

Measuring Kubernetes’ Market Share and Mind Share

Just how popular is Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestrator? How does its market share compare to that of Swarm, Mesos and other alternatives? Let’s take a look. Kubernetes, of course, is an ...
Diamanti Eyes Enterprises with Docker Appliance

Diamanti Eyes Enterprises with Docker Appliance

Diamanti wants to make container deployment a plug-and-play affair with the launch of an infrastructure appliance powered by Docker and Kubernetes. The company has announced the general availability of the appliance, called ...
Microsoft Advances Container Agenda

Microsoft Advances Container Agenda

Microsoft has delivered a series of updates on its microservices strategy spanning everything from a managed Azure Container Service (ACS) to Azure Functions that drive a serverless instance of the Microsoft cloud ...