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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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Containers / Security
Unikernels Can’t be Debugged, Joyent’s Chief of Technology Argues
25 Jan 2016 9:00am, by Joab Jackson
Containers / Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform Now Supports Red Hat OpenShift
22 Jan 2016 11:23am, by TC Currie
Containers / Microservices
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21 Jan 2016 11:53am, by Kiran Oliver
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Meros’ Container Monitor Plots to be a ‘Complete GUI’ for Docker
21 Jan 2016 11:07am, by Kiran Oliver
Containers
Docker’s Unikernel Purchase and the Changing Role of the OS
21 Jan 2016 8:31am, by Scott M. Fulton III
Containers / Microservices
Docker Buys Unikernel Systems, Plans to Mainstream Virtual Library OSes
21 Jan 2016 6:00am, by Joab Jackson
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From Containers to Unikernels and Serverless Architectures
20 Jan 2016 1:00pm, by Alex Williams
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Why Google Won’t Support Docker’s Container Network Model
20 Jan 2016 8:48am, by TC Currie
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Ken Owens, Cisco: Microservices Frameworks for Handling Complexity at Scale
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Yelp Releases an Initialization System for Docker Containers
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Andrew Hately and Jason McGee, IBM: The Evolution of Architectures at Container-Scale
15 Jan 2016 12:20pm, by Luke Lefler
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Citrix Sells CloudPlatform to Accelerite, Returns Focus to Core Technologies
15 Jan 2016 10:23am, by Susan Hall
Containers / Security
Black Duck Sets the Cornerstone for a ‘Container Store’ Ecosystem
13 Jan 2016 8:34am, by Scott M. Fulton III
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Josh Ellithorpe, Apcera: Creating Standards for the Container Ecosystem
12 Jan 2016 1:47pm, by Luke Lefler
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Joyent CTO: Confusion and Clarity in the Container Space
11 Jan 2016 11:38am, by Joab Jackson
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5 Jan 2016 1:11pm, by Alex Williams
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The Perfect Storm of Node.js and Docker
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The Year Ahead: Container Security and the Reality of Virtual Machine Coexistence
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The Year Ahead: The Rise of Containers as a Service
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