5 Bad Reasons to Use Containers

5 Bad Reasons to Use Containers

Containers, Docker and Kubernetes are all great things. But they’re not the right fit for all situations. Here are five bad reasons for migrating workloads to containers. For the purposes of this ...
SUSE Advances Kubernetes Integration with Cloud Foundry

SUSE Advances Kubernetes Integration with Cloud Foundry

The rise of Kubernetes has kicked off a furious debate over to what degree a platform-as-a-service environment such as Cloud Foundry should be redesigned to take advantage of a platform designed from ...
Dealing with the 'Gotchas' When Deploying Microservices

Dealing with the ‘Gotchas’ When Deploying Microservices

It can be said that microservices have created a great disturbance in the force when it comes to building apps and the monolithic 3-tier development architecture that we’ve known so well for ...
Chef Extends Alliance with AWS to Containers

Chef Extends Alliance with AWS to Containers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes available a managed instance of the IT automation framework from Chef to simplify DevOps management. Now the two companies have now extended that alliance to include integration ...
Capital One Gets Into Container Orchestration Platform Game

Capital One Gets Into Container Orchestration Platform Game

There’s no shortage of container orchestration platforms these days, but most of them don’t go beyond managing the containers themselves. Capital One Financial Corp., however, is offering its own orchestration platform the ...
CNCF Launches Kubernetes Certification to Increase Interoperability

CNCF Launches Kubernetes Certification to Increase Interoperability

Giving containerized app developers standard APIs and protocols is easy enough. How do you actually ensure they follow them? That’s the question the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) aims to answer through ...
With Balena, Resin.io Makes IoT Case for Containers

With Balena, Resin.io Makes IoT Case for Containers

While there’s a lot of interest internet of things (IoT) projects, there’s not much consensus when it comes to the best way to go about building these applications. The types and classes ...
Red Hat Extends Services Reach of Container Platform

Red Hat Extends Services Reach of Container Platform

Red Hat this week extended the reach of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform by adding an OpenShift Template Broker, which  makes it easier to discover any service created using templates that ...
Blockchain and Containers: More in Common than You Think

Blockchain and Containers: More in Common than You Think

Blockchain technology and containers may not seem to have much in common. At a conceptual level, however, they do. Here’s what the two have to do with each other. Blockchain refers to ...
Pepperdata Project Hosts HDFS on Kubernetes

Pepperdata Project Hosts HDFS on Kubernetes

Pepperdata has launched a project aiming to enable the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework for big data analytics applications. Pepperdata CTO Sean Suchter says the Hadoop File System (HDFS) on Kubernetes open-source ...