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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 Services / Containers / Tools

AWS Wants Its Open Source Firecracker to Become Faster

3 Dec 2019 8:15am, by B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored

Oracle on What ‘Enterprise’ Means in a Cloud Native World 

29 Nov 2019 3:14pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

Containers / Data / Sponsored / Contributed

How to Setup InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana on Docker: Part 2

29 Nov 2019 1:09pm, by Antoine Solnichkin

Containers / Kubernetes

Microsoft BUCK Shows How CNAB Bundling Could Work for Cloud App Deployment

28 Nov 2019 9:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Containers / Edge / IoT

Nubix Makes Tiny Containers for Edge Processing

26 Nov 2019 2:00pm, by Susan Hall

Containers / Security

Critical Vulnerability Found in Docker Copy

21 Nov 2019 7:00am, by Jack Wallen

CI/CD / Cloud Services / Containers / DevOps / Sponsored

New JFrog Container Registry Free for Both On-Premises and Cloud Use

20 Nov 2019 7:26am, by Jennifer Riggins

Containers / Kubernetes

Fargate Grows Faster Than Kubernetes Among AWS Customers

18 Nov 2019 2:25pm, by Lawrence E Hecht

Containers / Kubernetes / Security / Sponsored

Octarine Offers a Platform for Securing Kubernetes Workloads

18 Nov 2019 11:42am, by Emily Omier

CI/CD / Containers / Development / Security

Snyk Releases a Kubernetes-focused Container Security Platform

18 Nov 2019 8:30am, by Kayla Matthews

Containers / Kubernetes

UX Is Kubernetes’ Biggest Short-Term Challenge

14 Nov 2019 3:00pm, by Lawrence E Hecht

Mountains in the background

Containers / Kubernetes / Security

Alcide kAudit Launches for AI-Backed Live Kubernetes Audit Logging

14 Nov 2019 8:24am, by Jennifer Riggins

tree roots

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Mirantis Acquires Docker Enterprise

13 Nov 2019 8:45am, by Mike Melanson

Containers / Security

Docker Security Fundamentals and Best Practices

12 Nov 2019 3:00pm, by Jack Wallen

Containers / Security

Primer: What Is Container Security?

5 Nov 2019 6:00am, by Kayla Matthews

Containers

How BalenaOS Ran the First Docker Containers In Space

3 Nov 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage / Technology / Sponsored

Instant Data in a Post-DevOps World Comes Down to State

30 Oct 2019 5:00pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

Containers / DevOps / Sponsored / Contributed

DevOps Jumpstart: Persistent Storage and Container Orchestration

29 Oct 2019 10:27am, by Joseph Christianson

Containers / Development

This Week in Programming: Whither Serverless?

25 Oct 2019 12:28pm, by Mike Melanson

Containers / Data / Sponsored / Contributed

How to Setup InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana on Docker: Part 1

24 Oct 2019 8:58am, by Antoine Solnichkin

Containers / Security / Sponsored

Why Container Security Has No Easy Answers

23 Oct 2019 5:00pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

Containers / Security

New Cryptojacking Worm Found in Docker Containers

22 Oct 2019 1:48pm, by Jack Wallen

Cloud Native / Containers / Security

How Zero Trust, Service Meshes and Role-Based Access Control Can Prevent a Cloud-Based Security Mess

16 Oct 2019 3:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Containers / Monitoring / Security / Contributed

Real-Time Visibility and Alerting for Containerized Infrastructure

10 Oct 2019 3:00am, by Sean Porter

Containers / Data / Kubernetes

Databases on Kubernetes: Confusion on Adoption Persists

3 Oct 2019 10:14am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Containers / DevOps / Contributed

Containers Return Work-Life Balance Back to Developers

25 Sep 2019 8:00am, by Sanjay Chandru

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