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Canonical Delivers Chiselled Containers to Shrink Runtime Environments
Canonical's Chiselled Ubuntu containers reduce the amount of infrastructure required to run cloud-native apps in a production environment ...
Canonical Simplifies Deployment of Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Canonical has made available a virtual appliance for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud based on its lightweight MicroK8s distribution of Kubernetes along with a Charmed Operator for open source Kubeflow software ...
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 ...
Aqua Security Issues Docker API Alert
Aqua Security has issued an alert that notes the volume of cybersecurity attacks designed to exploit misconfigured open Docker Daemon application programming interface (API) ports is rising sharply. Specifically, the company reports ...
Environment Parity: Why Docker Matters More for Linux than Windows
Docker runs on any Linux distribution, but only on select versions of Windows. That begs the question: Is Docker as useful on Windows as it is on Linux? Docker and the Environment ...
Comparing OpenVZ and LXD Linux System Container Platforms
OpenVZ and LXD, which enable you to run a complete operating system inside a container, are not very different. But is one system container platform better than the other? Here’s a comparison ...
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 ...
Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04
LONDON–(Business Wire)–Canonical announced today it will release Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on 21st April, featuring the new ‘snap’ package format and LXD pure-container hypervisor. This is the latest version of the world’s most ...