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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

StackEngine Focuses on Docker Tools for the Real World

18 Jun 2015 1:49pm, by Susan Hall

Containers

Joyent and Cannonical Offer A Linux Flavor: Ubuntu Containers on a Bare Metal Platform

18 Jun 2015 12:06pm, by Susan Hall

CI/CD / Containers

Shippable ‘Formations’ is a Container CI/CD Without DevOps-Style Scripts

17 Jun 2015 10:05am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers

ClusterHQ: Let’s Move Docker Like Cattle but Make the Data Special

17 Jun 2015 7:30am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers

Now in Beta, Rancher Labs Runs Docker Natively in Production

14 Jun 2015 10:12pm, by Alex Williams

Containers

Free eBook Preview: Oceans of Docker and a Whale of an Ecosystem

13 Jun 2015 5:32pm, by Alex Williams

Containers / Monitoring

Docker’s New Microservices Monitoring Program Looks Like an OS-Style Approach

10 Jun 2015 8:05am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Sponsored

How To Detect, Map and Monitor Docker Containers with Weave Scope from Weaveworks

9 Jun 2015 9:35am, by Peter Bourgon and David Kaltschmidt

Containers / Data / Storage

Docker Will Change Hadoop, Making it Easier and Faster

8 Jun 2015 8:23am, by Susan Hall

CI/CD / Cloud Native / Containers

DevOps Landscape 2015: The Race to the Management Layer

4 Jun 2015 11:21am, by Kevin Fishner

Containers / Sponsored

The Docker Workaround: How ProfitBricks Did It

1 Jun 2015 9:07am, by Achim Weiss

Cloud Services / Containers

Microservices are Real, the Cloud not so Much

27 May 2015 10:25am, by Alex Williams

Containers / Sponsored

Why Analytics is a Core Function of Monitoring Microservices

26 May 2015 8:01am, by Luke Lefler

Cloud Native / Containers

Magnum is the Name, Docker Container Management is the Game

22 May 2015 2:51pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Red Hat’s Lars Herrmann: From Bottom Up To Down in the Container Stack

22 May 2015 8:50am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers

Getting Started With Mono on Docker

21 May 2015 7:49am, by David Bolton

Cloud Native / Containers

TNS Makers at OpenStack: Containers, Containers, Containers

19 May 2015 4:49pm, by Alex Williams

Containers / Kubernetes

Kubernetes Chief: We Back Docker, Although appc Might Have Merit

19 May 2015 3:13pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Services / Containers

Red Hat and all The Clouds for App Dev and Deployment

19 May 2015 10:04am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Development / DevOps / Microservices / Monitoring

Weaveworks Hires SoundCloud Engineer Peter Bourgon, Releases Container Mapper

14 May 2015 11:29am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored

A Short Stack with The New Stack at the Inaugural CoreOS Fest

14 May 2015 10:02am, by Luke Lefler

Containers

Windows Server Chief Mike Neil: Microsoft’s Tipping Point for Containers

13 May 2015 2:21pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Microservices

Microsoft’s Lightweight OS and its Deep Linux Connection

7 May 2015 1:54pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Monitoring

New Relic Adds Docker Support, Addresses Microservices Architectures

6 May 2015 4:59pm, by Susan Hall

Containers

Docker Just Changed Windows Server as we Know It

29 Apr 2015 4:56pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Data / Development / Kubernetes / Microservices / Open Source

The New Stack’s Top Ten Birthday Posts

29 Apr 2015 3:59pm, by Alex Williams

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