Mashape Looks to Strengthen Kong API Gateway for Microservices

Mashape Looks to Strengthen Kong API Gateway for Microservices

Gateways that facilitate integration across application programming interfaces (APIs) are the engines that have driven the API economy for much of the past decade. But as IT organizations increasingly embrace microservices, some ...
How Kubernetes is Eating the Container World

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 ...
IBM Advances OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Initiative

IBM Advances OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Initiative

Now that IBM and Adobe Systems are jointly leading the charge in terms of promoting adoption of an open-source serverless computing framework known as OpenWhisk, the two companies have implemented an application ...
CoreOS Makes Kubernetes More Accessible

CoreOS Makes Kubernetes More Accessible

Aiming to make its distribution of the Kubernetes container orchestration engine more accessible, CoreOS announced that CoreOS Tectonic soon also will be available on OpenStack and the Microsoft Azure cloud. In addition, ...
Red Hat Marries Gluster Storage to OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat Marries Gluster Storage to OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat is starting to make a case for coupling its container platform with storage systems running its Gluster software. Following the general availability of version 3.2 of Gluster being made today, ...
IBM Launches Managed Kubernetes Service

IBM Launches Managed Kubernetes Service

IBM has become the latest in a string of cloud service providers to make Kubernetes available as a managed service. At the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference today, IBM unfurled IBM Bluemix Container ...
CNCF to Weigh Two Container Projects

CNCF to Weigh Two Container Projects

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) appears to be suffering an embarrassment of container technology riches. Docker Inc., after pledging to give up control of the lower level run-time Docker functions as ...
Unikernels Use Cases: IoT, the Cloud and More

Unikernels Use Cases: IoT, the Cloud and More

Unikernels may be the next big thing after Docker. Which types of use cases will unikernels support? Keep reading for an overview. A unikernel is a type of microservices environment that contains ...
Red Hat's Message for the Container Ecosystem: Be Open and Collaborate

Red Hat’s Message for the Container Ecosystem: Be Open and Collaborate

What’s Red Hat’s vision for container adoption, and what has the company learned about the way clients go about setting up container platforms? Director of Product Strategy Brian Gracely recently shared his ...
Microservices Security Primer: How to Secure Microservices APIs

Microservices Security Primer: How to Secure Microservices APIs

If you use Docker containers or other microservices to host your apps, you probably rely heavily on APIs. And if you want to run those apps in production, securing the APIs is ...