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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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Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Containers / Sponsored

How Infrastructure-as-Code Democratizes Scale 

6 Jul 2020 3:00pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Diamanti Extends Spektra for Multicluster and Multicloud K8 for Stateful Apps

1 Jul 2020 3:00am, by B. Cameron Gain

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With an Advanced Container Platform, You Can Modernize Non-Cloud Native Apps … at Last

30 Jun 2020 12:00pm, by Tom Phelan

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Untrusted Docker Hub Images Found with Monero Cryptojacking Malware

25 Jun 2020 6:00am, by Joab Jackson

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CloudBees Continuous Integration Platform Meets U.S. Military Specs

22 Jun 2020 11:49am, by B. Cameron Gain

Containers / Kubernetes / Security

Kubernetes Starboard Project Offers Security Scanning from Kubectl

15 Jun 2020 3:00am, by Mike Melanson

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Applying Workload Orchestration to Experimental Biology

12 Jun 2020 8:25am, by Dhasharath Shrivathsa

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Beda, Burns and McLuckie: the Creators of Kubernetes Look Back

10 Jun 2020 12:33pm, by David Cassel

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The Container Security Maturity Model, a Step-by-Step Approach to Cloud Native Security

9 Jun 2020 10:37am, by Michelle McLean

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Container Sprawl Is the New VM Sprawl

8 Jun 2020 1:56pm, by Tobi Knaup

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Free Your Apps, Simplify Your Operations

8 Jun 2020 9:13am, by Alex Williams

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Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs

3 Jun 2020 11:49am, by Mike Melanson

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Containerless Computing: The Ultimate Service Decomposition

29 May 2020 10:15am, by Bruce Basil Mathews

Containers

Docker Wires Desktop into Azure, Visual Studio

27 May 2020 10:58am, by Mike Melanson

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Red Hat’s Keycloak Identity Access Management Bids to Join CNCF

26 May 2020 10:43am, by Mike Melanson

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How to Deploy Containers with LXD

25 May 2020 6:00am, by Jack Wallen

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Using Data Fabric and Kubernetes in Edge Computing

21 May 2020 12:00pm, by Ted Dunning

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Tern 2.0 Introduces Dockerfile Lock for Point-in-Time Software Bills of Material

21 May 2020 3:00am, by Mike Melanson

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Harbor Adopts OCI Compliance, Makes Bid to Graduate CNCF

19 May 2020 11:38am, by Mike Melanson

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How to Fix the Gaps in Kubernetes Infrastructure Management

12 May 2020 5:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain

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This Week in Programming: GitHub Codespaces’ Portable Dev Environment

9 May 2020 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

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AWS’ Bottlerocket and the Age of the Linux Cloud Distributions

8 May 2020 5:00pm, by Joab Jackson

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‘Cards Against Containers’: A DevOps Card Game from Sysdig

3 May 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel and TC Currie

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Public Key Infrastructure Needs to Evolve to Support Cloud Native Computing

1 May 2020 10:55am, by Ben Hirschberg

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Microservices Verge on Mainstream Adoption, Yet Challenges Remain

30 Apr 2020 11:36am, by Ankur Singla

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Kata Containers Demo: A Container Experience with VM Security

27 Apr 2020 2:05pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

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