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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 / Data

MapR Platform Offers Persistent Data Access for Containerized Applications

8 Feb 2017 8:52am, by Maxwell Cooter

Cloud Services / Containers

Oracle Cloud’s Secret Sauce: The Virtual Cloud Network

8 Feb 2017 6:00am, by Joab Jackson

Containers

Amazon AWS Supports OCI Format; Will There Be a Mixed Container Registry Now?

8 Feb 2017 4:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

API Management / Cloud Native / Containers / Data / Development / Serverless

An Architectural View of Apache OpenWhisk

3 Feb 2017 7:35am, by Janakiram MSV

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Microservices

How Oracle is Preparing Enterprises for the Microservices Revolution

3 Feb 2017 6:00am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native / Containers / DevOps / Edge / IoT / Kubernetes / Microservices / Security

VMware Foresees a Future Where Photon, Kubernetes, and NSX Work on Bare Metal

2 Feb 2017 8:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

CI/CD / Containers / Security

How Twistlock Secures the Enterprise Container

31 Jan 2017 6:00am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Culture / Development / Open Source

Monki Gras: The Key to Open Source Success is in the Packaging

31 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes / Serverless

Platform9 Manages Kubernetes and Spins Up a New Serverless Platform

27 Jan 2017 6:00am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers

Context: Who’s in Charge of the Container Ecosystem?

26 Jan 2017 6:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Development / Open Source

Lennart Poettering on systemd’s Tumultuous Ascendancy

26 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Cloud Native / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Microservices / Monitoring

Rethinking Monitoring for Container Operations

25 Jan 2017 11:33am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Containers / Data / Development / Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence’s Next Big Step: Reinforcement Learning

25 Jan 2017 8:00am, by Mary Branscombe

API Management / CI/CD / Cloud Native / Containers / Culture / Development / DevOps / Microservices

Automation Is the Key for Agile API Documentation

24 Jan 2017 7:58am, by Jennifer Riggins

Cloud Native / Containers / Culture / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning

Where the Cloud Won’t Work: Machine Learning for the Industrial Internet of Things

23 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Mark Boyd

API Management / Cloud Native / Containers / Development / DevOps / Microservices / Serverless

Ten Attributes of Serverless Computing Platforms

19 Jan 2017 8:56am, by Janakiram MSV

Containers / Open Source

Microsoft Adds Intel’s Stateless, Containerized Linux to Azure Marketplace

19 Jan 2017 6:37am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Open Source / Security

Docker Calls out Red Hat for Ambitious Marketing over Recent RunC Vulnerability

17 Jan 2017 2:08pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Contributed

Distributed Fabric: A New Architecture for Container-Based Applications

17 Jan 2017 3:00am, by Ranga Rajagopalan

Containers / Kubernetes / Monitoring

Mesos and Docker Swarm Race to Improve ‘Health Checks’

16 Jan 2017 6:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Data / Development / Kubernetes / Storage

Deploy a Highly Available WordPress Instance as a StatefulSet in Kubernetes 1.5

13 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Janakiram MSV

API Management / Containers

MicroBadger API Provides Programmatic Access to Container Metadata

12 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Liz Rice

Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source

SUSE Formalizes Container Strategy with a New Linux Distro, MicroOS

11 Jan 2017 1:00am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Cloud Native / Containers / Microservices / Monitoring

Docker: Container Monitoring Differs from Monitoring Traditional Applications

10 Jan 2017 11:15am, by Kiran Oliver

API Management / Cloud Native / Containers / Development / Microservices / Serverless

An Introduction to OpenWhisk, IBM’s Open Source Serverless Computing Platform

6 Jan 2017 1:10am, by Janakiram MSV

CI/CD / Cloud Native / Containers / DevOps / Microservices / Monitoring

Make Your Containerized Apps Production-Ready

5 Jan 2017 4:13am, by Vivek Juneja

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