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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 / 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 K. 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

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

The Cloud-Native Application Lifecycle Difference: Continuous Change

21 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Chip Childers

Cloud Native / Containers

CoreOS Joins Docker in Donating a Container Runtime to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

20 Mar 2017 10:02am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers

Docker to Donate its Container Runtime, containerd, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

15 Mar 2017 9:00am, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Mesosphere Makes a Big Ecosystem Play, Adding ‘Pods’ and an Apps Store for Services

14 Mar 2017 8:59am, by Scott M. Fulton III

CI/CD / Containers / Culture / Development / Edge / IoT / Open Source

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Automation Meets the Wine Devotee

11 Mar 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

Containers

Full Speed Ahead for Tugboat, the iOS Client for Docker

10 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Maxwell Cooter

Containers / DevOps / Sponsored

Why GoDaddy Built a Container-as-a-Service Platform

9 Mar 2017 9:25am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers

Docker and the Enterprise Matrix

9 Mar 2017 7:45am, by Michael Coté

Containers / Data / DevOps / Security

Three Overlooked Lessons about Container Security

8 Mar 2017 11:00am, by Liz Rice

CI/CD / Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Microservices

Ansible Container: Playbooks as the Sole Build and Management Tool

8 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Services / Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source / Serverless

Skippbox Acquisition Brings Kubernetes Expertise to Bitnami

7 Mar 2017 11:18am, by Benjamin Ball

Containers / Security

Container Security Vendor NeuVector Zeroes in on the Network

6 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers

Docker Launches an Enterprise Edition, Refines Market Strategy

2 Mar 2017 6:00am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Data / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

Microsoft Brings Kubernetes to Azure

2 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

CI/CD / Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Storage

Windocks Brings Containers to Microsoft Windows

1 Mar 2017 12:33pm, by Benjamin Ball

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Development / Microservices / Open Source

CNCF Adds Google’s gRPC Remote Call Project to Its ‘Big Tent’

1 Mar 2017 7:30am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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