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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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Containers / Kubernetes / Contributed

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

Cloud Native / Containers / Data / Kubernetes

Apache Flink 1.4 Lays Groundwork for Unified Stream and Batch Processing

29 Nov 2017 6:00am, by Alex Handy

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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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EngineerBetter’s Hosted Concourse CI Service Is Now in Limited Beta

22 Nov 2017 12:30pm, by Kiran Oliver

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Typeform: To Go and Beyond

21 Nov 2017 11:43am, by Kiran Oliver and Alex Williams

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Six Strategies for Application Deployment

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Kube-Node: Let Your Kubernetes Cluster Auto-Manage Its Nodes

20 Nov 2017 6:00am, by Henrik Schmidt

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Funtainers: The Beauty of Running Containers as Functions

17 Nov 2017 6:00am, by Amiram Shachar

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CircleCI’s Technical Architecture Is Built for Scalability

16 Nov 2017 12:13pm, by Kiran Oliver and Alex Williams

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Microsoft Azure Debuts a ‘Spark-as-a-Service’

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Chef Sweetens the Deal for Developers on AWS

16 Nov 2017 5:00am, by Susan Hall

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The Evolving Developer Advocate Role — A Conversation with Google’s Kim Bannerman

15 Nov 2017 3:02pm, by Kiran Oliver and Alex Williams

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Apache Juneau Makes Java REST Interfaces Easy for Microservices

14 Nov 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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CNCF Ensures Kubernetes Interoperability with a New Cert Program

13 Nov 2017 9:45am, by Alex Handy

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Solomon Hykes Changes Roles at Docker

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This Week in Programming: Kotlin Eats Your Lunch

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Riverbed Adds Container Support to the SteelCentral Application Monitoring Platform

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With REX-Ray, Dell Backs the Container Storage Interface Spec

9 Nov 2017 8:25am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Cloud Foundry: Focusing on Flexibility and Choice for a Cloud-Native World

8 Nov 2017 2:14pm, by Kiran Oliver and Alex Williams

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OpenStack’s New Public Passport Program Could Kickstart Federated Cloud Management

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Prometheus 2.0 Arrives with a Speedy New Local Storage Engine

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