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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

Docker Spins out Containerd as an Independent Open Source Project

14 Dec 2016 8:35am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Kubernetes

CoreOS Offers Self-Hosting Kubernetes with New Tectonic Release

13 Dec 2016 11:21am, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes

How Getting Your Project in the CNCF Just Got Easier

12 Dec 2016 7:55am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Monitoring / Open Source / Security / Contributed

Self-driving Infrastructure Makes the Internet More Secure

12 Dec 2016 7:34am, by Alex Polvi

Cloud Native / Containers / DevOps / Microservices / Monitoring

Our Latest Ebook on Container Monitoring and Management

12 Dec 2016 7:07am, by Benjamin Ball

Containers / Kubernetes

Red Hat Opens Up OpenShift Dedicated to Google Cloud Platform

8 Dec 2016 7:49am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning / Security

AWS re:Invent 2016: Ship Your Workloads to Seattle (Literally)

7 Dec 2016 8:23am, by Cameron Peron

Cloud Services / Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Monitoring / Contributed

Sematext Integrates Monitoring and Log Management into a Single Service

6 Dec 2016 2:40am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source / Security

Docker CEO: Docker Already Is a Security Platform (with Swarm, That Is)

5 Dec 2016 8:21am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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

Event Marketing for Today’s Developer Evangelists and Community Managers

30 Nov 2016 8:54am, by Kiran Oliver

CI/CD / Containers / Open Source

Sloppy’s Managed Docker-as-a-Service Lets Developers Focus on Code

30 Nov 2016 7:44am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes

SUSE to Acquire HPE’s OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Portfolio, Boost Kubernetes Investment

30 Nov 2016 2:30am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Microservices / Open Source / Sponsored

SAP Tests Kubernetes for Cloud-Native Enterprise Software Deployments

29 Nov 2016 9:17am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Machine Learning / Monitoring

Meet Seymour: New Relic’s Exploration into Machine Learning for App Monitoring

29 Nov 2016 9:01am, by TC Currie

Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored

How Rancher Helps Put Kubernetes into Production

28 Nov 2016 11:15am, by Kiran Oliver

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

Right-click Docker: Microsoft’s Ambitious Enterprise Vision for Containers

28 Nov 2016 9:26am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Contributed

TNS Analysts Thanksgiving Special: The Evolution of Kubernetes and the Container Ecosystem

24 Nov 2016 5:04am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Kubernetes

Update to Kubernetes’ Helm Package Manager Could Simplify App Deployment

18 Nov 2016 8:34am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Kubernetes

Kubernetes is NOT Scary, Complex or Even Confusing

18 Nov 2016 7:42am, by Rob Hirschfeld

API Management / CI/CD / Cloud Native / Containers / Data / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Microservices / Contributed

Cloud Native: Service-driven Operations that Save Money, Increase IT Flexibility

17 Nov 2016 7:53am, by Craig McLuckie

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Monitoring

Weaveworks Knits Networking, Prometheus Monitoring into a Cloud-Native Service, Weave Cloud

17 Nov 2016 6:50am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source

Apprenda-led Team Preps Kubernetes to Manage Windows Containers

15 Nov 2016 7:24am, by Joab Jackson

API Management / Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Microservices

Create At-Scale Cloud Native Deployments with HPE and OpenStack

14 Nov 2016 9:21am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native / Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

KubeCon Pancake Breakfast: Keep the Dream Alive

11 Nov 2016 5:39am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Data / Kubernetes

Parity Check: Do We Need All That Scalability Mesos Offers?

10 Nov 2016 8:58am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Cloud Native / Containers / Culture / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

Post-Election Pancake Breakfast: What Community Means Now

9 Nov 2016 6:57am, by Alex Williams

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