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

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

9 Mar 2017 9:25am, by Kiran Oliver

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Docker and the Enterprise Matrix

9 Mar 2017 7:45am, by Michael Coté

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Three Overlooked Lessons about Container Security

8 Mar 2017 11:00am, by Liz Rice

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Ansible Container: Playbooks as the Sole Build and Management Tool

8 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

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Skippbox Acquisition Brings Kubernetes Expertise to Bitnami

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Container Security Vendor NeuVector Zeroes in on the Network

6 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

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Docker Launches an Enterprise Edition, Refines Market Strategy

2 Mar 2017 6:00am, by Joab Jackson

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Microsoft Brings Kubernetes to Azure

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

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Windocks Brings Containers to Microsoft Windows

1 Mar 2017 12:33pm, by Benjamin Ball

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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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Helm Co-Creator on Using Kubernetes and Deis Workflow at Clearbit

28 Feb 2017 10:16am, by Benjamin Ball

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A Hacker’s Guide to Kubernetes Networking

27 Feb 2017 10:33am, by Yaron Haviv

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OpenStack Ocata: Containers all the Way Down

24 Feb 2017 11:48am, by Joab Jackson

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CoScale Offers Full-Stack Monitoring for Containers and Microservices

24 Feb 2017 9:19am, by Susan Hall

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With Azure Container Service, Microsoft Works to Make Container Management Boring

24 Feb 2017 3:05am, by Mary Branscombe

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Adapt or Die: The New Pattern of Software Delivery

23 Feb 2017 1:00am, by Wayne Gibbins

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Containers Pose Different Operational, Security Challenges for PCI Compliance

22 Feb 2017 11:00am, by Susan Hall

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The Future of Microscaling and the Current State of Container Deployments

21 Feb 2017 10:22am, by Joab Jackson

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Of Pies and Platforms: Platform-as-a-Service vs. Containers-as-a-Service

20 Feb 2017 6:00am, by Chip Childers

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Kubernetes and the Microservices Hierarchy of Needs

17 Feb 2017 12:00pm, by Bilgin Ibryam

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Apache Kafka: The Cornerstone of an Internet-of-Things Data Platform

15 Feb 2017 8:10am, by Janakiram MSV

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How Operable Built its ChatOps Cog Platform on Docker Images

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Microsoft Windows Server Seeks a Place at the Table with Kubernetes

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