David Geer’s work has appeared in ScientificAmerican, The Economist Technology Quarterly, CSO & CSOonline, FierceMarkets, TechTarget, InformationWeek, Computerworld, Byte.com, ITWorld.com, IEEE Computer Society’s Computer magazine, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Government Security News, Laptop, Smart Computing, Technical Support, The Hosting Standard (Canada), TechWorld.com (UK), SIGnature, Processor, and the Engineering News-Record. David served as a technician at CoreComm in Cleveland, OH prior venturing into writing.
Menlo Security Captures Malware in Containerized Micro Services, Part One
Web frameworks, architectures, and methodologies of the future will trend toward breaking up big web services into lots of little pieces, all with slightly different requirements with containers providing a software construct, ...
Challenges to Docker Monitoring Relieved, Ruxit Claims
A joint survey from O’Reilly and Ruxit says that container monitoring (including Docker monitoring) is an important issue and a challenge for Docker users, according to Ruxit. Sponsored surveys seem to provide ...
Skytap Taps Containers / Cloud for Enterprises Seeking to Update Legacy Back ends
News media moves legacy backend systems off the back burner in a bad way. The online news media often highlights the bad penny that is legacy backend systems in a bad way ...
Ansible Responds To Report That It Must Work To Maintain Its Importance In The Face Of Containers (Part Two)
As we discovered in the first installment of this two-part series, the folks at Ansible reacted to a recent report claiming that enterprises like it must work to maintain significance given the ...
Ansible Responds To Report That It Must Work To Maintain Its Importance In The Face Of Containers (Part One)
Some folks at Ansible read recently that enterprises like it must strive to retain significance given the popularity of containers and microservices. In a message to ContainerJournal, an external PR agency responded ...
CGmanager: Undergirding LXD
The third LXD / LXC technology in this series is CGmanager, which is the final undergirding technology, the one that enables secure cgroup (control group) management for Linux containers. CGmanager is necessary ...
Comparing & Contrasting Containers
Pulse Secure container pros delineate Docker from Android for Work from iOS Docker, Android for Work, and iOS with its native application containers differ on several planes beyond the fact that they ...
LXCFS, the /proc file system, and systemd
Dual-Purpose File System LXCFS provides the fundamental userspace /proc file system in the LXC container; this makes the container look like a system so that LXD can provide that type of system-level ...
LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part Two
Last time, ContainerJournal corralled comments from Dustin Kirkland, Strategist, Container Offerings, Canonical on the LXD hypervisor for LXC containers that work with Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux OS for Part One of LXD, the ...
LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part One
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu and is neck-deep in providing Linux Containers, i.e., LXC and its component technologies, now including LXD (the LXC container hypervisor), CGmanager (for cgroups) and LXCFS (a ...
