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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.

eBook Series: The Docker and Container Ecosystem

19 Sep 2015 9:42am, by Alex Williams

Containers / Security

How Docker Helped Yelp Leave the Monolith Behind

16 Sep 2015 8:32pm, by Jennifer Riggins

In Container World, Chef Faces Shifting Landscape for Configuration Management

15 Sep 2015 2:04pm, by Susan Hall

API Management / Cloud Services / Containers / Data Science / Microservices / Open Source / Software Development

Built.io and its Automated Pipeline for Connecting Apps with Custom Logic

15 Sep 2015 11:09am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Cloud Services / Containers / Data Science / DevOps / Kubernetes / Microservices / Open Source / Software Development

Mantl Introduces Microservices as a Stack

14 Sep 2015 1:58pm, by Kiran Oliver

DCHQ: Automating Container Deployment in Similar Ways to VMs

14 Sep 2015 8:16am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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API Management / Cloud Native Ecosystem / Containers / Kubernetes

The OpenStack Conversation Turns to Containers and Orchestration

9 Sep 2015 8:46am, by Alex Williams and Luke Lefler

JFrog’s New Artifactory 4.0 Competes with Docker Trusted Registry, CoreOS and Google

8 Sep 2015 1:42pm, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Services / Containers / Data Science / DevOps / Open Source / Software Development

Streaming Data at LinkedIn: Apache Kafka Reaches 1.1 Trillion Messages Per Day

3 Sep 2015 11:34am, by Kiran Oliver

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Cloud Services / Containers / Data Science / DevOps / Observability / Open Source / Software Development

TNS Makers: The Comparison and Context of Unikernels and Containers

2 Sep 2015 1:32pm, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / DevOps / Open Source / Software Development / Sponsored

Embrace Docker’s Rise and Don’t Get Fooled Again

1 Sep 2015 4:32pm, by Achim Weiss

API Management / Cloud Services / Containers / Data Science / DevOps / Open Source / Software Development

Demo: Mesos Running a Single Cluster of Linux and Windows Machines

31 Aug 2015 2:58pm, by Kiran Oliver

Can You Click in Emacs? — Software Defined Talk #42

30 Aug 2015 8:16am, by Michael Coté

Containers / Storage

Hedvig’s Software-Defined Storage and the Test to Docker’s Plugin System

28 Aug 2015 10:48am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Sponsored

The Pancake Breakfast Circuit Comes to ContainerCon

27 Aug 2015 10:17am, by Luke Lefler

Containers / Kubernetes

Google Container Engine is The Product Version of Kubernetes and It’s Now Live

26 Aug 2015 4:01pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

The Windows and Linux Container Era is Here

19 Aug 2015 9:41am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Containers / Microservices

I Got a Fever and the Only Prescription is More Containers … and Pancakes!

17 Aug 2015 8:31pm, by Alex Williams

API Management / Cloud Services / Containers / Networking / Open Source

New Linux Collaborative Projects: Open Mainframes, Universal IO and Bare Metal Storage

17 Aug 2015 6:48am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Security

Docker: With Content Trust, You Can Run Containers on Untrusted Networks

12 Aug 2015 5:15pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Kubernetes

SUSE: Containers, Docker’s Role and Avoiding Fragmentation in an Open World

10 Aug 2015 7:27am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers for Non-Developers: Shifting the Conversation to a Wider Business Focus

7 Aug 2015 5:37am, by Mark Boyd

Containers / Culture / IoT Edge Computing

Life in a Post-Container World and Why Linux Will Play a Diminished Role

29 Jul 2015 11:36am, by Ian Eyberg

Containers / Microservices

Don’t Get Too Caught Up With Containers and Microservices

25 Jul 2015 8:11am, by Joe Emison

Now That Oracle and Verizon are Aboard, Don’t Count Out the Open Container Initiative

22 Jul 2015 4:01pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Open Source / Software Development

Preview The New Stack’s eBooks About Docker and Containers: Launching at OSCON on GitHub

21 Jul 2015 1:01pm, by Sam Charrington and Alex Williams

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