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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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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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Rancher Container Management Platform Goes All in on Kubernetes

27 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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Why Containers Are Everywhere in Microsoft Azure

25 Sep 2017 4:00pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

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The 80/20 Rule Points to Real Benefits from Containers in Production

25 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Mark Thiele

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This Week in Numbers: Container Storage Preferences for Kubernetes

23 Sep 2017 9:00am, by Lawrence E Hecht

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The {code} Mission in the Maturing Container Technology Landscape

22 Sep 2017 2:27pm, by Alex Williams

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Puppet Will Extend Infrastructure Automation Capabilities with Distelli Acquisition

21 Sep 2017 1:06pm, by Susan Hall

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Netsil Visualizes the Performance of Microservices

21 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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Uber Devises a Scheduler to Run TensorFlow Deep Learning Jobs Across Multiple GPUs

19 Sep 2017 12:12pm, by Joab Jackson

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Loot Crate Launches a Swag Store on Google Container Engine

18 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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Canonical’s New Services Go Wide and Deep on Enterprise Kubernetes

18 Sep 2017 2:00am, by Michelle Gienow

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Casting Weight Behind Kubernetes, Oracle Commits to Cloud Native Computing

15 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Alex Handy

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Clouber: Modernizing Legacy Applications for the Cloud

14 Sep 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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StackPointCloud Augments Kubernetes with the Istio Service Mesh

13 Sep 2017 6:00am, by TC Currie

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4 Reasons Not to Use AWS Elastic Block Storage for Stateful Container Operations

8 Sep 2017 9:04am, by Gou Rao

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Mesosphere Returns to Kubernetes with a Beta for DC/OS

7 Sep 2017 9:48am, by Susan Hall

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ContainerCon 2017 to Show Deepening Impact of Containers on Production Systems

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