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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

Rancher Labs Releases RancherOS into General Availability

20 Apr 2017 10:31am, by Maxwell Cooter

Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices

Tutorial: Configuring a Kubernetes DevTest Cluster in DigitalOcean

20 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Janakiram MSV

Containers / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Open Source

What’s Next for the Kubernetes AWS SIG

19 Apr 2017 1:09pm, by Alex Williams

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Docker’s Moby Project Aims to Expand Container Usage Beyond the Clouds

19 Apr 2017 6:21am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / DevOps / Security / Contributed

Container Security and DevSecOps: The Old Rules No Longer Apply

19 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Tsvi Korren

Containers / Open Source / Security

Finally, Linux Containers Could Run on Windows with Docker’s LinuxKit

18 Apr 2017 12:54pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

CI/CD / Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Open Source / Sponsored

Kubernetes and Continuous Deployment

18 Apr 2017 12:37pm, by Alex Williams

Containers / Open Source

Docker Launches LinuxKit and the Moby Project for Building Containerized Infrastructure

18 Apr 2017 8:00am, by Joab Jackson

CI/CD / Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source

Bitbucket Pipelines Now Connects to Docker Containers

18 Apr 2017 7:54am, by Alex Handy

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source / Storage

Kubernetes Sets the Stage for Container-Native Storage

14 Apr 2017 10:30am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Open Source

Microsoft Mulls Expanding Windows 10 to Support Multiple Linux Distributions

11 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source / Sponsored

How the CNCF Grapples with Continuous Integration and Deployment

10 Apr 2017 3:00pm, by Alex Williams

Cloud Services / Containers / Culture / Edge / IoT / Kubernetes / Open Source

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Kubernetes and Containers for Physical Computing?

8 Apr 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

Cloud Native / Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Sponsored

CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn: What’s Next for CNCF in 2017

7 Apr 2017 1:00pm, by Alex Williams

Containers / Open Source / Security / Storage

Containers and Storage: Why We Aren’t There Yet

7 Apr 2017 8:52am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / DevOps / Networking / Storage

Portworx Provides a Container-Level Approach to Managing Stateful Applications

6 Apr 2017 9:12am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

Codenvy on How the Language Server Protocol Could Help IDEs

5 Apr 2017 3:00pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Sponsored

KubeCon Europe Pancake Breakfast 2017: Kubernetes and the Multi-Cloud

3 Apr 2017 3:00pm, by Alex Williams and Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices

IBM Taps Kubernetes for the Bluemix Container Service

3 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Darryl Taft

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes

Kubernetes Federation in a Post-Configuration Management Universe

31 Mar 2017 7:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

CNCF Accepts Both Docker’s containerd and CoreOS’ rkt as Incubation Projects

30 Mar 2017 9:50am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes

No SSH Here: Ticketmaster’s Fervent Take on Containerization, Integration, and Change

29 Mar 2017 10:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Open Source / Security / Tools

Meet Alpine Linux, Docker’s Distribution of Choice for Containers

28 Mar 2017 8:16am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Containers / Kubernetes

StackPointCloud Solidifies Pricing for its Managed Kubernetes Cloud Deployments

27 Mar 2017 6:59am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Containerization Leaders Explore Possible Standardized Data Storage Interface

24 Mar 2017 7:45am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking / Security / Contributed

Automating Kubernetes Cluster Operations with Operators

21 Mar 2017 8:59pm, by Timo Derstappen

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