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Google Extends Hybrid Appeal of Container Engine Cloud

In terms of advancing container adoption, Google has been at the forefront, thanks mainly to its work on developing the Kubernetes container orchestration framework. The company this week moved to make those ...

Mike Vizard | July 13, 2017 | CaaS, cloud, container as a service, container platform, google, Google Container Engine, kubernetes

Dynatrace Extends Container Reach

There are a lot more types of containers being deployed in production environments than just Docker. In fact, one of the most widely employed types of containers employed in a production environment ...

Mike Vizard | July 7, 2017 | APM, application performance management, BOSH, CaaS, Cloud Foundry Foundation, container as a service, Dynatrace, microservices, open source, PaaS, platform as a service

SUSE Makes Case for Containers as a Service

Making good on a previous commitment to build a container-as-a-service (CaaS) environment, SUSE, a unit of Micro Focus, has combined its SUSE MicroOS operating system, the Kubernetes container orchestration platform and open-source ...

Mike Vizard | June 27, 2017 | automation, BOSH, CaaS, container as a service, containers, linux, MicroFocus, SALT, SUSE

Atlantic.Net Unfurls Windows Server Container Cloud Service

When it comes to hosting containers on Windows Server in the cloud, it looks like Microsoft is no longer the only game in town. Atlantic.Net has added a Windows Server Container service ...

Mike Vizard | June 8, 2017 | Atlantic.Net, cloud services, container as a service, containers, docker, microsoft, Windows Azure, Windows Server 2016

Microsoft Automates App Deployments on Kubernetes

At the CoreOS Fest 2017 conference this week Microsoft announced it is making available an open source Draft tool that makes it possible for developers to spin up a Kubernetes container cluster ...

Mike Vizard | June 2, 2017 | Azure, container as a service, containers, CoreOS Fest 2017, Deis, kubernetes, microsoft, Microsoft Draft

What is a Container Orchestrator, Anyway?

Container orchestration has become a hot topic following Docker’s ascent. There are lots of orchestrators out there, and people tend to have strong opinions about which one is best. But in this ...

Christopher Tozzi | May 29, 2017 | Amazon ECS, container, container as a service, container management, infrastructure as code, infrastructure management, Kontena, orchestration, orchestrator, rancher

SUSE Preps CaaS Platform Atop Kubernetes

Now that IT organizations are getting more comfortable with containers, IT vendors are starting to position themselves to provide the frameworks through which all those containers will be managed. SUSE has become ...

Mike Vizard | April 12, 2017 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, container as a service, containers, google, kubernetes, microsoft, Mirantis, open source, SUSE

CaaS vs PaaS: What’s Right for You?

For cloud people like me—I’m the CTO at Cloud Foundry Foundation—containers are a constant conversation topic. The main issue is how to embrace this new application architecture and put containerized workloads into ...

contributor | April 4, 2017 | applications, CaaS, Cloud Foundry Foundation, container as a service, containers, developers, PaaS, platform as a service

How Kubernetes is Eating the Container World

Is Kubernetes eating the container world? Not quite, but it’s close—and its success comes at the expense of Docker Swarm. The recent news that IBM has added a managed Kubernetes service to ...

Christopher Tozzi | March 27, 2017 | container, container as a service, docker, ECS, IBM Bluemix, kubernetes, orchestration engine, swarm

The Container Ecosystem’s Biggest Stories in 2016

From Swarm integration to better security solutions, 2016 was a big year for containers. Here’s a recap of the leading container stories from the past year from the Docker world and beyond ...