operating system

Canonical Expands Ubuntu Container Image Portfolio
As part of an update to its Ubuntu operating system, Canonical has added Grafana Loki, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra container images to the portfolio of images to which it provides long-term ...

AWS Fires Bottlerocket Linux for Container Apps
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced the general availability of Bottlerocket, a lightweight instance of Linux optimized for container applications running on the AWS cloud. Peder Ulander, director for open source ...

SUSE Sees Containers Playing Role to Combat COVID-19
SUSE is now offering free support and maintenance services for open source operating system software and container technologies that wind up being employed on medical devices to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Talos Systems Delivers OS Optimized for Kubernetes
Talos Systems today made available a beta release of its Talos operating system (OS) optimized to run Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Timothy Gerla says unlike other lightweight distributions of Linux, Talos OS ...

Red Hat Makes Progress on System Containers
The push to modular operating systems constructed of microservices based on multiple types of container technologies is making progress as Red Hat gears up to deliver the server edition of Fedora 26, ...

Cumulus Networks Takes on Container Networking Challenge
As containers proliferate across the enterprise, a case is now being made for moving more networking functions on to the host where those containers reside. As such, Cumulus Networks has created the ...

How to Make Docker Containers Faster and Improve Performance
Your Docker containers are already fast, at least compared to virtual machines. But what if you want to make them even faster? Here are strategies for optimizing Docker container speed and performance ...

Which OS Is Best for Docker? Here’s How to Decide
What’s the best operating system for hosting Docker containers? That’s a loaded question. Here’s a guide to answering it. The question is loaded because, well, people tend to have strong opinions about ...

Container Antipatterns: 5 Mistakes to Avoid when Using Docker
To get the most out of Docker containers, it’s important to avoid mistakes that DevOps teams sometimes make when migrating to Docker. Here are the top five common Docker mistakes to avoid ...

5 Use Cases for System Containers Powered by LXD or OpenVZ
You know all about use cases for Docker containers. But what about system container platforms such as OpenVZ and LXD? Keep reading for system container use cases. System containers are designed to ...