Microsoft Draft Helps Developers Adopt Kubernetes

Microsoft Draft Helps Developers Adopt Kubernetes

Microsoft’s Deis has released Draft to makes it easy for developers to build applications that run on Kubernetes. Draft does this by providing tools and simplifying steps required to build for Kubernetes ...
VMware Leans on Apcera to Manage Containers

VMware Leans on Apcera to Manage Containers

IT organizations in large numbers have been deploying containers on top of VMware because that’s the dominant platform deployed inside most enterprise IT organizations. But many of those organizations also want to ...
HPE, Mesosphere Tighten Integration

HPE, Mesosphere Tighten Integration

Mesosphere and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have tightened their relationship by integrating their respective management platforms. At the recent Discover 2017 conference hosted by HPE, the two companies announced that they have ...
Qualys Extends Monitoring Reach to Docker Containers

Qualys Extends Monitoring Reach to Docker Containers

At a Gartner Security and Risk Management conference today, Qualys announced it has extended its continuous monitoring service to support Docker containers. Qualys developed a container sensor that can be distributed as ...
The Case for LXD, Canonical's System Container Framework

The Case for LXD, Canonical’s System Container Framework

Most container conversations today center on Docker. But as Docker has taken enough, Canonical has been quietly working on LXD, a different type of container framework that supports some interesting use cases ...
What is a Container Orchestrator, Anyway?

What is a Container Orchestrator, Anyway?

Container orchestration has become a hot topic following Docker’s ascent. There are lots of orchestrators out there, and people tend to have strong opinions about which one is best. But in this ...
HPE Rises to Container Management Challenge

HPE Rises to Container Management Challenge

As containers rise in popularity, IT vendors are racing to develop management frameworks that will enable IT organizations to manage containers wherever they reside. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it ...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Makes Case for Containers

Cloud Foundry Foundation Makes Case for Containers

There’s a significant amount of debate these days over where best to deploy container applications. Bare metal servers, virtual machines and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments are all in the mix. But a new ...
CoreOS Diverges from Docker Model with etcd3 Launch

CoreOS Diverges from Docker Model with etcd3 Launch

CoreOS is pushing forward with its Kubernetes-centric container orchestration stack with the launch of etcd3, the next-generation version of its distributed key-value store. The company announced the stable release of etcd3 June ...
Sysdig Takes Container Monitoring On-Premises

Sysdig Takes Container Monitoring On-Premises

One of the more problematic issues that containers raise from an IT management perspective is how to monitor what’s occurring inside the container. As far as traditional IT monitoring tools are concerned ...