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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 / Open Source / Security

A Look at SCONE: Secure Linux Containers in Untrusted Environments with Intel SGX

20 Oct 2017 8:30am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices

Mesosphere’s Founders on the Modern Role of the Scheduler

18 Oct 2017 2:04pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

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The Four Pillars of Cloud-Native Operations

18 Oct 2017 7:00am, by Michael Ducy

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Docker Expands Program to Help Enterprises Containerize Legacy Java, .Net Applications

18 Oct 2017 1:00am, by Alex Handy

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Docker Fully Embraces Kubernetes

17 Oct 2017 10:52am, by Alex Handy

Containers / Kubernetes

CRI-O, the Project to Run Containers without Docker, Reaches 1.0

17 Oct 2017 9:44am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Culture / Data / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning / Serverless

Azure IoT Edge, Machine Learning and Containers

17 Oct 2017 2:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Containers / Data / Contributed

Deploy the NuoDB Database in Docker Containers

16 Oct 2017 8:40am, by Ben Higgins

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How Workday Bridges the Gap between Amazon and OpenStack

16 Oct 2017 2:02am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Kubernetes Implementations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

13 Oct 2017 9:00am, by Lawrence E Hecht

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Discussing Cloud Foundry’s New Container Runtime

13 Oct 2017 12:15am, by Alex Williams

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Kubo Becomes Cloud Foundry’s Container Runtime, Default for Kubernetes Deployment

12 Oct 2017 1:34pm, by Susan Hall

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Defining Ease of Use on Azure Means Meeting Developers Halfway

11 Oct 2017 1:19pm, by Alex Williams

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Chef Launches Habitat Builder, a Cloud-Native Application Packaging Service

11 Oct 2017 11:59am, by Susan Hall

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Why Azure App Service Embraces Containers and Now Runs on Linux

9 Oct 2017 2:00pm, by Alex Williams

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OpenFaaS: Package any Binary or Code as a Serverless Function

9 Oct 2017 6:00am, by Joab Jackson

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Container Camp: Four Security Lessons from a Live Container Hacking Session

9 Oct 2017 2:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

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A Closer Look at Microsoft’s Azure Event Grid

6 Oct 2017 2:00am, by Janakiram MSV

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Red Hat Fills Out its Cloud-Native Storage Package with Block and Object Storage

5 Oct 2017 12:44pm, by Susan Hall

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Containers and Microservices Spark a Search for Better File Systems

5 Oct 2017 2:00am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

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Microsoft Builds a BASIC Bridge to Containers with .NET Core 2.0

3 Oct 2017 12:56pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

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OpenWorld: Oracle Sets Sights on AWS with New Serverless, Container Services

3 Oct 2017 12:41pm, by Alex Handy

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Mesosphere DC/OS Brings Large-Scale Real-Time Processing to Geospatial Data

29 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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A Universal Resource Broker to Deploy Mesos Frameworks on Kubernetes

28 Sep 2017 12:55pm, by Alex Williams and Scott M. Fulton III

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Kubernetes 1.8 Arrives with Improvements in Stability, Security, and Storage Support

27 Sep 2017 9:00pm, by Susan Hall

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The Case for Running Monolithic Applications in Docker Containers

27 Sep 2017 7:00am, by Laura Frank

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