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Containers

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Containers serve as the base common denominator for the cloud native computing. They offer a universal platform to package software programs so they can be easily moved around to different systems, even those with different architectures.

Like any modern technology, containers have actually been around for decades. FreeBSD offered “jails” in the early 2000s, and Solaris containers were a key part of offering secure, flexible platforms for applications running on Sun Micrososystems’ own Unix platform. In 2008, the idea of container became a core part of the Linux kernel with the introduction of LXC (LinuX Containers), implemented with cgroups and Linux namespaces.

While LxC was used by Google to manage its own infrastructure, it wasn’t until the advent of Docker, nuanced in 2013, did developers embrace the abstraction, because it gave them an easy way to move software from development to production without any manual restaging. Mass-use of containers spurned development of container orchestraters such as Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.

Although Docker open sourced its container technology, additional effort has gone on to move the technology to independent open source governance, by way of projects such as runC, Containerd and the Moby Project. Additionally, more work has been undertaken to build containers that are both more secure and performant, such as Kata Containers.


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CI/CD / Containers / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Sponsored

Continuous Integration and Delivery with Jenkins X and Kubernetes

5 Sep 2018 12:48pm, by Libby Clark

Containers / Development / Kubernetes

Akka Java Middleware: What Goes Inside the Containers Counts

5 Sep 2018 8:29am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes

VMworld 2018: VMware Wants to Re-Architect Your Containers for NSX

31 Aug 2018 1:04pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Gremlin Now Treats Containers as First-Class Failures

28 Aug 2018 7:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Containers

VMworld 2018 Las Vegas Preview: The Post-vSphere Era Takes Shape

24 Aug 2018 9:53am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Kubernetes

A Look Back at Kubernetes with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns

21 Aug 2018 11:18am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers

Robin Systems Unveils Kubernetes ‘Hyper-Converged’ Offering

21 Aug 2018 6:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Security

Kube-hunter: Aqua’s New Open Source Tool for Hunting Kubernetes Security Issues

20 Aug 2018 10:50am, by Susan Hall

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Container Image Registry Security Best Practices

17 Aug 2018 9:00am, by Ben Bernstein

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5 Key Reasons to Become a Docker Certified Associate

8 Aug 2018 6:00am, by R. Azharuddin

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Anchore: Container Security Starts with the Images

7 Aug 2018 9:00am, by Susan Hall

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Security Differences: Containers vs. Serverless vs. Virtual Machines

7 Aug 2018 6:00am, by Vince Power

Containers / Security

Alert Logic Debuts Intrusion Detection for Containers

2 Aug 2018 11:14am, by Susan Hall

Containers

Docker Makes It Easy for a Developer to Build and Deploy Apps

31 Jul 2018 3:49pm, by Swapnil Bhartiya

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CNCF’s Cloud-Native Stack Gets a Private Container Registry from VMware

31 Jul 2018 9:15am, by Joab Jackson

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Cilium: Making BPF Easy on Kubernetes for Improved Security, Performance

23 Jul 2018 10:56am, by Susan Hall

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10 Key Attributes of Cloud-Native Applications

19 Jul 2018 9:00am, by Janakiram MSV

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This Week on The New Stack: OSCON and Java Container Images

13 Jul 2018 1:53pm, by Libby Clark

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Talking Up Kubernetes with Rancher

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StackRox Adds Feedback Loop, Orchestrator Security

12 Jul 2018 9:27am, by Susan Hall

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Google Launches Jib, Automated Container Packaging for Java Apps

11 Jul 2018 12:20pm, by Joab Jackson

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AWS Fargate: The Beginning of the End for Infrastructure Management

10 Jul 2018 10:18am, by Matt Alderman

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Tech Ethics: Can Developers Save the Earth, One Container at a Time?

4 Jul 2018 3:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

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Over 20,000 Container Management Dashboards Are Exposed on the Internet

2 Jul 2018 3:00am, by Lucian Constantin

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Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images

29 Jun 2018 4:00am, by Lucian Constantin

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The State of Building Images on Kubernetes

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