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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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Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Security

Kata Containers: Secure, Lightweight Virtual Machines for Container Environments

18 Dec 2017 10:16am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Serverless

New Microsoft, Oracle Projects Bridge Kubernetes with Serverless Environments

15 Dec 2017 9:20am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Kubernetes 1.9 Brings Stability, Windows Support

15 Dec 2017 9:00am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Monitoring

Ops Checklist for Monitoring Kubernetes at Scale

15 Dec 2017 3:00am, by Craig Martin

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes: Now What?

14 Dec 2017 1:00pm, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Kubernetes

A Closer Look at Microsoft Azure’s Managed Kubernetes Service

14 Dec 2017 5:00am, by Janakiram MSV

Containers / Machine Learning / Monitoring

jClarity Brings Accurate Java Monitoring into the Container World

13 Dec 2017 12:00pm, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Monitoring

CoreOS’s Open Cloud Services Could Bring Cloud Portability to Container-Native Apps

13 Dec 2017 11:00am, by Joab Jackson

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CloudPassage’s Security-as-a-Service Addresses Needs in Speed, Compliance

13 Dec 2017 10:04am, by Susan Hall

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AWS Re:Invent and KubeCon: The Race to Invisible Infrastructure

13 Dec 2017 8:00am, by Yaron Haviv

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

Where Is Kubernetes Headed in 2018 and Beyond?

12 Dec 2017 12:50pm, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Open Source / Security

Nested Virtualization Offers Containers the Isolation of VMs without the Overhead

12 Dec 2017 3:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Containers / DevOps / Security

tCell.io Aims to Make Application Security More DevOps Friendly

11 Dec 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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Heptio Expands Ark Disaster Recovery for Azure Environments

7 Dec 2017 9:30am, by TC Currie

Containers / Kubernetes

Canonical, Rancher Rustle Up Kubernetes Cross-Cloud Capability

7 Dec 2017 8:48am, by Michelle Gienow

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3 Reasons the Container Storage Interface Is a Big Deal

6 Dec 2017 10:56am, by Clint Kitson

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Deletion and Garbage Collection of Kubernetes Objects

6 Dec 2017 9:00am, by Maarten Hoogendoorn

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Amazon SageMaker Automates the Artificial Intelligence Development Pipeline

6 Dec 2017 8:45am, by Joab Jackson

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Pivotal Adds a Serverless Service to its Cloud-native Platform

5 Dec 2017 9:00am, by Alex Handy

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How Kubernetes Deployments Work

5 Dec 2017 9:00am, by Maarten Hoogendoorn

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Trends to Follow at KubeCon 2017

4 Dec 2017 9:30am, by Gadi Naor

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How Kubernetes Resource Classes Promise to Change the Landscape for New Workloads

4 Dec 2017 4:18am, by Jeremy Eder

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Amazon Web Services Takes on Kubernetes, Offers a Serverless Database Service

29 Nov 2017 1:13pm, by Joab Jackson

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Apache Flink 1.4 Lays Groundwork for Unified Stream and Batch Processing

29 Nov 2017 6:00am, by Alex Handy

Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Security

CSPi Puts Container Security Focus on Protecting Data, Rather than Infrastructure

28 Nov 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes

Microsoft Centers Azure’s Container Services Around Kubernetes

28 Nov 2017 3:00am, by Mary Branscombe

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