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Docker as the New Status Symbol (Or, Why Everyone Loves Docker)
Why is Docker so popular? The technical advantages of containers have a lot to do with it. However, part of the answer is also cultural: Docker is a status symbol that companies ...
Kubernetes 1.8 Brings Additional Security, Stability
The latest release of the Kubernetes container orchestration engine, which arrived this week, has something for almost everybody in the container community. In general, new Kubernetes 1.8 features fall into two broad ...
SAP Commits to Kubernetes Container Orchestrator
At its Tech-Ed 2017 conference this week, SAP made a major commitment to employing the Kubernetes container orchestration engine alongside the implemention of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service environment it already employs in ...
Mirantis to Support Kubernetes on AWS
Mirantis made a name for itself by providing a curated distribution of the open-source OpenStack cloud management framework that organizations could deploy themselves or have Mirantis manage on their behalf. The company ...
Rancher Labs Embraces Kubernetes
Rancher Labs originally developed Cattle as an orchestration engine specifically optimized for Docker containers. Now, with its technical preview of the Rancher 2.0 management framework unveiled this week, the company is signaling it ...
Mendix Adds Kubernetes Support to Low-Code Platform
As a provider of a low-code application development environment, Mendix realized early on it could leverage investments being made by open-source software consortiums such as Cloud Foundry to lower its development costs ...
Microsoft: Embrace Containers or Face Extinction
A principal technology evangelist for Microsoft told attendees this week at the NextStep 2017 conference hosted by OutSystems that organizations that don’t adopt containers as the fundamental unit of work for building ...
OutSystems Charts Container Strategy
At a NextStep 2017 conference this week, OutSystems signaled it will marry its low-code application development platform with containers. Gonçalo Borrêga, head of product for OutSystems, says the company will provide tools ...
Environment Parity: Why Docker Matters More for Linux than Windows
Docker runs on any Linux distribution, but only on select versions of Windows. That begs the question: Is Docker as useful on Windows as it is on Linux? Docker and the Environment ...
Why PaaS vs. CaaS Is the Wrong Question to Ask
You’ve heard of platform as a service (PaaS). You’ve heard of containers as a service (CaaS). Wondering what the difference is between a PaaS and a CaaS, and which solution is best ...