orchestration
Kubernetes 1.6 Spans 5,000 Nodes, Standardizes Runtime
At the CloudNativeCon + Kubecon Europe 2017 conference this week, Kubernetes 1.6 update was released. This latest version can span 5,000 nodes and hardens many of the features enterprise IT organizations require ...
Docker Containers are Great, But They Add Complexity
Docker increases app flexibility, but it also adds complexity in many ways. To migrate successfully to containers, you need to have a plan for handling that additional complexity. Docker adds flexibility because ...
Docker Allies with Canonical on Ubuntu Support
Docker and Canonical have formed an alliance under which the Docker CS Container Engine will be commercially supported by both vendors. While Docker containers have been widely deployed on Ubuntu for some ...
How Open is the Container Ecosystem?
Docker is an open-source platform. But how open is the container ecosystem as a whole? That’s a question worth considering as organizations make plans to migrate to containers. To be sure, most ...
Docker 1.12 Release Goes Beyond Swarm Orchestration
Docker 1.12 became generally available on July 28, bringing baked-in Swarm orchestration and performance and security enhancements to the container platform. Here’s a look at what you need to know about the ...
Docker Raises the Bar with Built-In Container Orchestration
At DockerCon 16 in Seattle last week, Docker rolled out the new Docker Engine 1.12, which includes native container orchestration built-in. In a blog post, the Docker Core Engineering team discussed why ...
Mesosphere Delivers on Promise of Marathon Container Orchestration Framework
As part of a concerted effort to make container orchestration a natural extension of a modern framework for holistically managing the entire IT environment, Mesosphere today announced that version 1.0 of Marathon, ...
Container Orchestration Wars Start to Heat Up
When Docker is clearly the dominant instance of containers the debate over how containers should be managed is now just only beginning. At present, there are arguably four leading orchestration platform most ...
Will Rancher change container clouds?
Using Docker on a local machine or VM on an ad-hoc basis is OK. But as soon as you involve other team members and the delivery chain it simply cannot work. This ...