Making the Case for Kata Containers

Making the Case for Kata Containers

The debate over whether containers and hypervisors complement each other or eliminate the need for the latter remains contentious. Most containers today are deployed on top of hypervisors largely because of a ...
OpenStack Foundation Launches Kata Container Project

OpenStack Foundation Launches Kata Container Project

The OpenStack Foundation announced this week that it is leading an effort to combine two existing open source projects to create a Kata class of containers that can be deployed on a ...
Aqua Security Bolsters Container Security

Aqua Security Bolsters Container Security

Now that containers are showing up with increased frequency in production environments, the challenges associated with securing those containers are becoming more apparent to developers and IT security teams alike. The latest ...
Why Docker Won't Kill Virtual Machines

Why Docker Won’t Kill Virtual Machines

Conventional wisdom posits that Docker containers are killing virtual machines. That’s an overstatement. VMware, KVM and other virtual machine platforms still have bright futures. Here’s why. There’s no doubt that Docker’s debut ...
MirageOS Unikernels Now Support KVM and FreeBSD bhyve

MirageOS Unikernels Now Support KVM and FreeBSD bhyve

Unikernels built using MirageOS can now run on more hypervisors following the release this week of MirageOS 3.0, a platform for building specialized microservices applications for the cloud. MirageOS lets you build ...
Oracle Hybrid Cloud Revolves Around Microservices Runtime

Oracle Hybrid Cloud Revolves Around Microservices Runtime

At the core of Oracle’s hybrid cloud computing strategy is an approach to containers that relies on a management plane residing in the network rather than in the hypervisor. At its CloudWorld ...
Linux vs. Windows Containers: What's the Difference?

Linux vs. Windows Containers: What’s the Difference?

With Docker container support now available for Windows Server 2016, admins are bound to wonder what the differences are between Windows and Linux containers. Here’s an overview. To keep things simple, let’s ...