Container Ecosystems

Intel to work with CoreOs, Mirantis and Google to Integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack
In a development that promises to have major implications for how private clouds are ultimately built and managed, Intel, CoreOS and Mirantis this week revealed they are working with Google to port ...

Docker Announces Native Apps for Windows and Mac
Docker put containers on the map and has driven the mainstream container craze over the past few years. Docker has been adopted by and integrated into most major platforms and cloud services ...

5 Docker Best Practices You Should Follow
Docker is not the only container technology out there, but it is the de facto standard bearer for containers and it’s the most recognizable brand among the container players. Support for Docker ...

Docker: Swarm Beats Google Kubernetes in Container Cluster Orchestration
Docker says its native container orchestration platform, Swarm, outperforms Kubernetes by up to 500 percent overall. That’s according to results published this week from benchmark tests by a third-party observer that Docker ...

‘Containers-as-a-Service’ Is a Hot Trend
How do you know when a new concept or technology has truly achieved mainstream critical mass? When it gets converted to the ubiquitous “as-a-Service” alternative. Containers are still sort of the new ...

Container Orchestration Wars Start to Heat Up
When Docker is clearly the dominant instance of containers the debate over how containers should be managed is now just only beginning. At present, there are arguably four leading orchestration platform most ...

Docker Datacenter: What It Means for the Container Ecosystem
Docker launched its first major enterprise product, Docker Datacenter, a few days ago. Here’s how the Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform will impact other container companies and software, and what it means for innovation ...

Facebook and Equinix to Collaborate on Platform for Containers
Facebook and Equinix this week at the Open Compute Project 2016 Summit announced a partnership under the two companies plan to collaborate on the development of a new platform optimized to run ...

How To Choose a Cloud Platform for Containers
Cloud services have been a major battleground for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft for years now. Leveraging cloud platforms has already become commoditized to some extent, though, to the point that there wasn’t ...

CoreOS raises the bar for container security with Rocket 1.0
CoreOS is a sort of frenemy of Docker—a competitor and partner at the same time—and continues to be a thorn in Docker’s side every once in a while. Now is one of ...