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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.

Containers / Culture / Data / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source / Serverless

How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source

20 Jun 2017 1:00pm, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Containers / Data / DevOps / Serverless

Skipping Containers Altogether for Serverless Environments

15 Jun 2017 1:30pm, by Benjamin Ball

CI/CD / Containers

Shippable Delivers a Continuous Integration Platform for the Enterprise

15 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Maxwell Cooter

CI/CD / Containers / Development

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

15 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Joab Jackson

CI/CD / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices

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

Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Microservices / Contributed

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

9 Jun 2017 9:00am, by Nati Shalom

Containers / Kubernetes

Kublr Offers Kubernetes for the Enterprise

8 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes

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

6 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Alex Williams

Containers / Development / Kubernetes

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

5 Jun 2017 3:00pm, by Alex Williams

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Loodse Automates Kubernetes Cluster Management

5 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices

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

2 Jun 2017 2:50pm, by Michael Coté

Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source

Oracle Joins the Kubernetes Movement

1 Jun 2017 8:00am, by Alex Handy

Containers / Kubernetes

Parity Check: Research Suggests Uptick in Container Orchestration

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

CI/CD / Containers / Microservices

Microsoft Draft Offers Kubernetes Support for Developers

31 May 2017 8:26am, by Mary Branscombe

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

JFrog Looks Beyond Containers to Address the Hybrid Cloud

26 May 2017 10:20am, by Alex Handy

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Dell EMC’s ScaleIO Provides Scalable Stateful Storage for Orchestrated Containers

26 May 2017 3:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Development / Open Source / Security

What to Expect (and Not Expect) from Linux Universal Packages

25 May 2017 6:00am, by Bruce Byfield

Containers / Data / Open Source / Security

Six Gotchas with Running Docker Containers on Hadoop

25 May 2017 3:00am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Contributed

The Myth of Cloud-Native Portability

24 May 2017 1:00pm, by Bilgin Ibryam

Cloud Services / Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Microservices / Monitoring / Open Source / Security / Storage

Google, IBM, Lyft Launch a Kubernetes-based Open Source Microservices Framework

24 May 2017 11:57am, by Alex Handy

Cloud Services / Containers

Last.Backend Helps Developers Focus on Apps, Not Infrastructure

24 May 2017 6:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes

Establishing Best Practices for Adopting Kubernetes

23 May 2017 1:54pm, by Benjamin Ball

CI/CD / Containers / Development

Chef Brings Its IT Automation Portfolio to the Cloud

23 May 2017 8:30am, by Joab Jackson

API Management / Cloud Native / Containers / Culture / Development / Open Source / Contributed

Stronger Together: How Cloud Foundry Supports Other Communities

22 May 2017 6:00am, by Chip Childers

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