virtualization
5 Best Practices When Implementing a Container Strategy
Software developers must be vigilant in regards to their use of hardware resources. Dedicated hardware is often expensive to buy, run, and maintain—and there’s only so much room in a data center ...
Best of 2021 – How to Accelerate the Journey to Kubernetes and Containers
As we close out 2021, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the twelfth in our series of the Best of 2021. Even ...
Spectro Cloud Makes Bare Metal Kubernetes Contribution to CNCF
It may soon get easier to provision and manage bare metal servers running Kubernetes following a contribution from Spectro Cloud to the open source cluster application programming interface (CAPI) being advanced under ...
Red Hat Makes VM Migration Kit Available for OpenShift
During an online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat announced today that a kit for migrating existing virtual machines to a Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes is now generally available ...
Loft Labs Makes K8s Virtualization Software Open Source
Loft Labs today announced that its virtualization software for Kubernetes clusters is now available as an open source project. Available on GitHub, the vcluster software created by Loft Labs makes it possible ...
The 3 Phases of Containerization
The history of containers can be broken into three main phases. Each phase marks a different stage in the evolution of container technology, as well as different use cases for containers. Understanding ...
Cluster API to the Rescue: An Easier Way to Manage Your Kubernetes Clusters
In less than a generation, we’ve gone from bare-metal servers to virtualization to containers. It’s a story of expanded possibilities aided by stakeholder communities coming together to solve problems. Over time, processes ...
Containers vs. Legacy Infrastructure: What Containers Do Differently
When people discuss containers, they tend to compare them to “legacy” or “traditional” solutions without defining what those words actually mean. Let’s take a look at how containers compare to alternative technologies ...
What’s the Future of LXC, Docker’s Semi-Forgotten Stepmother?
Is there still a future for LXC, the Linux container framework that predated Docker? Maybe—but probably not in a way that involves it competing directly with Docker as an application container solution ...
VMware Leans on Apcera to Manage Containers
IT organizations in large numbers have been deploying containers on top of VMware because that’s the dominant platform deployed inside most enterprise IT organizations. But many of those organizations also want to ...
