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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 / Kubernetes / Microservices / Serverless

Serverless, Containers and Application Operations

7 Jun 2018 5:02pm, by TNS Staff

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Containers

Red Hat Buildah Provides a Way to Build Containers without the Docker Daemon

7 Jun 2018 9:56am, by Joab Jackson

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Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Hasura Focuses on Making Kubernetes Easier with GitOps

15 May 2018 3:00am, by Susan Hall

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Containers

Microsoft Azure Container Instances are Now Ready for Production Workloads

25 Apr 2018 1:10pm, by Joab Jackson

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Containers / Security / Contributed

Containers and Compliance: Building Secure, Automated Systems on Amazon Web Services

19 Apr 2018 9:01am, by Jason McKay

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Containers

Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 Embraces Kubernetes

17 Apr 2018 1:34pm, by Alex Handy

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Containers

Open Container Initiative Creates a Distribution Specification for Registries

11 Apr 2018 3:00am, by Alex Handy

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Containers / Data / Kubernetes

Container Storage Environments in OpenEBS for Kubernetes and Microservices Deployments

8 Apr 2018 7:45am, by Alex Williams

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Containers

Container Solutions: Cloud Migration with the Best Tools — and the Right Culture

4 Apr 2018 12:08pm, by Michelle Gienow

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Containers / Machine Learning

This Week on The New Stack: Hykes Leaves Docker, Nvidia Joins the Kubernetes Movement

30 Mar 2018 2:31pm, by Libby Clark

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Containers / Security / Sponsored / Contributed

Five Docker Security Best Practices

22 Mar 2018 6:00am, by Amit Sharma

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Cloud Native / Containers / Microservices

The Path to Microservices: Getting Ready, Asking Questions

12 Mar 2018 12:34pm, by Michelle Gienow

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Containers / Kubernetes / Security

Aqua Extends Container Security Platform to Kubernetes, Cloud Services

12 Mar 2018 12:15pm, by Joab Jackson

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Cloud Native / Containers

CNCF Webinar to Present New Data on Container Adoption and Kubernetes Users in China

12 Mar 2018 1:00am, by TNS Staff

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Containers / Kubernetes

This Week in Numbers: Measuring the Success of Kubernetes-as-a-Service

10 Mar 2018 9:00am, by Lawrence E Hecht

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Containers / Kubernetes / Machine Learning

A Primer on Nvidia-Docker — Where Containers Meet GPUs

9 Mar 2018 8:33am, by Janakiram MSV

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Containers / Kubernetes / Security

What the Data Says about Kubernetes Deployment Patterns

6 Mar 2018 9:14am, by Lawrence E Hecht

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Cloud Native / Containers / Microservices

Microservices 101

5 Mar 2018 11:49am, by Michelle Gienow

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Containers / Kubernetes

New Kubernetes Solutions Directory Now Available for Download

27 Feb 2018 10:27am, by Alex Williams

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Containers / Kubernetes

Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System Will Soon Offer a Managed Kubernetes

27 Feb 2018 8:18am, by Joab Jackson

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Containers / Kubernetes / Contributed

Kublr Simplifies the Deployment, Scaling, and Management of Kubernetes

21 Feb 2018 1:33pm, by Terry Shea

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Containers / Kubernetes

Over Time, Kubernetes May Take Over the Entire Lifecycle of Applications

21 Feb 2018 1:12pm, by Swapnil Bhartiya

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Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Machine Learning

GitHub Predicts Hottest 2018 Open Source Trends

19 Feb 2018 8:58am, by Michelle Gienow

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Containers / Development / Microservices / Service Mesh / Sponsored

The History of the Service Mesh

13 Feb 2018 12:05pm, by William Morgan

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Containers / Data / Kubernetes

Oracle Promises Self-Securing, Self-Repairing Autonomous Cloud Services

12 Feb 2018 3:06pm, by Joab Jackson

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Cloud Native / Containers / Edge / IoT / Sponsored / Contributed

Mesosphere DC/OS and Google Cloud Platform Help Taxfyle Scale Up for Tax Season

7 Feb 2018 10:30am, by Laura Kelso

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