What's the Future of LXC, Docker's Semi-Forgotten Stepmother?

What’s the Future of LXC, Docker’s Semi-Forgotten Stepmother?

Is there still a future for LXC, the Linux container framework that predated Docker? Maybe—but probably not in a way that involves it competing directly with Docker as an application container solution ...
Red Hat Extends Kubernetes Support in Fedora Atomic Host

Red Hat Extends Kubernetes Support in Fedora Atomic Host

The Fedora project is an instance of Linux Red Hat employs to give IT organizations early access to new technologies the company might employ in future distributions of Linux. In the latest ...
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 ...
Red Hat Acquires Codenvy to Round Out OpenShift.io

Red Hat Acquires Codenvy to Round Out OpenShift.io

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of time developers spend managing local infrastructure resources, Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring Codenvy, a provider of a workspaces ...
Weaveworks Monitors Multiple Container Platforms

Weaveworks Monitors Multiple Container Platforms

As microservices adoption increases and the technology matures, Weaveworks is betting that most IT organizations will need to support container applications running on two or more container platforms. The latest release of ...
New Docker CEO Outlines Strategy

New Docker CEO Outlines Strategy

In a move intended to shore up the confidence enterprise IT organizations have in Docker Inc., a former SAP executive has been named CEO and chairman. In his new role, Steve Singh ...
Electric Cloud Marries Microservices to DevOps

Electric Cloud Marries Microservices to DevOps

With the rise of microservices enabled by containers, DevOps is about to become IT organizations’ dominant challenge. Even when an IT organization has achieved some level of DevOps maturity, the complexity associated ...
Microsoft Advances Container Agenda

Microsoft Advances Container Agenda

Microsoft has delivered a series of updates on its microservices strategy spanning everything from a managed Azure Container Service (ACS) to Azure Functions that drive a serverless instance of the Microsoft cloud ...
Shippable Updates Docker-Based CI Platform

Shippable Updates Docker-Based CI Platform

Shippable‘s continuous integration (CI) platform has received new automation and visibility features with the release of what the company is calling the next-generation version of the Docker-based product. Like other CI platforms, ...
Red Hat Sets OpenShift Tops for Containers

Red Hat Sets OpenShift Tops for Containers

Given the fact that many new application development projects in the enterprise make use of containers, providers of the platform those applications are built and deployed on are anxious to show their ...