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A Security Guy’s Top 10 Container Ecosystem Milestones

2016 was a big year for the virtual container space, and 2017 looks even more promising. The industry saw tremendous growth and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Containers, being still ...

contributor | January 2, 2017 | cloud, container, docker, funding, milestones, security, software, trends

Now’s the Best Time for Container Adoption

Enterprise software companies stand to benefit greatly from container technology, yet adoption has been slow. It’s understood that containers could help to speed the inevitable force of digital transformation, overcoming the challenges ...

contributor | November 29, 2016 | adoption, applications, container, container platforms, cost-savings, platform

Database Containerization Platform Checklist

Containers are lightweight, fast and agile, and solve all dependency issues related to the applications. With such benefits, why aren’t we using containers for stateful apps? It certainly isn’t because of vendors ...

contributor | September 19, 2016 | container platforms, database containerization, stateful applications

SecDevOps and Containers: Kill the Candy-Related Analogies

Google “SecDevOps” and the results show that security teams are ready and willing to jump on the DevOps bandwagon. DevOps folks talk a lot about “shifting left,” i.e., addressing issues earlier in ...

contributor | September 13, 2016 | application hardening, CD, CI, containers, continuous delivery, continuous improvement, rugged devops, secdevops, security

Container Security Needs to Be Easy

We are all familiar by now with the promised benefits of deploying applications with Docker containers. These include: Significant scalability and agility improvements, Predictable performance and resource isolation, and Application portability and ...

contributor | September 8, 2016 | apps, container, data center, security, security issues, security tools, VMs

Container Security: Why Bother?

Are containers secure? Probably not. But knowing each approach’s strengths and risks—and available options—could help ease adoption. Such a decision requires two primary considerations: Containers do not provide the same level of ...

contributor | August 31, 2016 | container, docker, kernel, lxc, security, VMs, vmware

Is This the Beginning of the End for OpenStack?

I was struck by a conversation I had earlier this year during the OpenStack conference in Austin with a technical architect from one of the bigger players. He was seeing baffled IT ...

contributor | August 19, 2016 | cloud services, containers, developers, Fuel, infrastructure as a service, Mirantis, openstack, VMs

Containers: Not One to Rule Them All

In the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, there was one ring to rule them all. Fortunately, when it comes to the container platform ecosystem, there’s far less of a monarchy. Not all ...

contributor | August 12, 2016 | build vs. buy, choosing a container, container size, containers, Kontena, scale, use case

Linux Containers: Comparing LXC and Docker

As industry moves beyond the virtual machine (VM) consolidation paradigm, several types of containers have become prominent. Two flavors in particular currently enjoy the lion’s share of deployments on the Linux operating ...

contributor | August 5, 2016 | containers, dev/test, docker, linux, lxc, production, virtual machines

Got Bugs? Use Snapshots to Speed Dev, Testing

Software development is far more streamlined today than it ever has been. Sites such as GitHub, continuous integration and delivery processes (CI/CD) and technologies such as containers have sped up the development ...