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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 / Development / Kubernetes / Networking

Microsoft Trims Nano Server for Container Work

29 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored

Kubo and the Two Platforms: Orchestrating the Orchestrator

28 Jun 2017 2:00pm, by Alex Williams and Scott M. Fulton III

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CircleCI Containerizes Build, Test and Deploy Services as Separate Components

26 Jun 2017 9:00am, by Susan Hall

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Leveraging Cloud Services to Make In-House Ops Teams More Competitive

23 Jun 2017 12:15pm, by Peter Waterhouse

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Redis Enterprise Comes to the Cloud Foundry Platform

23 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Alex Handy

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Contributed

Wal-Mart Kicks Partners Off Amazon’s Cloud: The Implications for Organizations

22 Jun 2017 9:41am, by Phil Dougherty

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Effective Microservices Architecture with Event-Driven Design

22 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

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Delivering Performance Metrics for Everyone’s Unique Perspective

21 Jun 2017 2:00pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Kubermesh: Ocado’s Kubernetes Variant for Building Fault-Tolerant Infrastructure

21 Jun 2017 3:00am, by Maxwell Cooter

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Chef, the Company That Is Big on Hugs

20 Jun 2017 2:00pm, by Alex Williams

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How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source

20 Jun 2017 1:00pm, by Swapnil Bhartiya

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Skipping Containers Altogether for Serverless Environments

15 Jun 2017 1:30pm, by Benjamin Ball

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Shippable Delivers a Continuous Integration Platform for the Enterprise

15 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Maxwell Cooter

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KISS: Chef Habitat Addresses the Complexities of Moving Containers into Production

15 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Joab Jackson

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Yipee.io Helps Corral Containers for DevOps

14 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Sponsored

OK, Google: Kelsey Hightower’s ChefConf Keynote Was Totally Dope

12 Jun 2017 12:32pm, by Alex Williams

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Create the Next-Generation Cloud Management Platform with Model-Driven Service Orchestration

9 Jun 2017 9:00am, by Nati Shalom

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Kublr Offers Kubernetes for the Enterprise

8 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Susan Hall

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Meet the Technical Team for The New Stack’s Upcoming Kubernetes and Serverless Ebooks

6 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Alex Williams

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Heptio Comes Out of Stealth Mode with a Kubernetes Configuration Tool, ksonnet

6 Jun 2017 1:00am, by TC Currie

Containers

Apcera Shows How a Single Control Plane Makes Old Apps Span New Clouds

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Loodse Automates Kubernetes Cluster Management

5 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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Software Defined Talk: An AWS Private Cloud Strategy, and YAML-Based Microservices

2 Jun 2017 2:50pm, by Michael Coté

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Oracle Joins the Kubernetes Movement

1 Jun 2017 8:00am, by Alex Handy

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Parity Check: Research Suggests Uptick in Container Orchestration

31 May 2017 11:51am, by Lawrence E Hecht

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Microsoft Draft Offers Kubernetes Support for Developers

31 May 2017 8:26am, by Mary Branscombe

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