What's In an Orchestrator? What Orchestrators Are and What They Aren't

What’s In an Orchestrator? What Orchestrators Are and What They Aren’t

Container orchestrators such as Kubernetes and Swarm are a core component of production Docker environments. Understanding what an orchestrator is designed to help you do—and what they aren’t designed to do—is crucial ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Kubernetes is Eating the Container World

How Kubernetes is Eating the Container World

Is Kubernetes eating the container world? Not quite, but it’s close—and its success comes at the expense of Docker Swarm. The recent news that IBM has added a managed Kubernetes service to ...
Mesosphere Extends Data Services Reach

Mesosphere Extends Data Services Reach

As critical as container orchestration itself might be, most IT organizations view that capability as the means to a larger end. To drive that point home even further, Mesosphere this week has ...
Black Duck: To Keep Containers Secure, Monitor Your App Code, Too

Black Duck: To Keep Containers Secure, Monitor Your App Code, Too

The key to keeping containers secure is to think about the software running inside them, not just the software that hosts them. That’s the message Black Duck Software is aiming to send ...
A Security Guy’s Top 10 Container Ecosystem Milestones

A Security Guy’s Top 10 Container Ecosystem Milestones

2016 was a big year for the virtual container space, and 2017 looks even more promising. The industry saw tremendous growth and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Containers, being still ...
ClusterHQ Folds, Flocker Lives On

ClusterHQ Folds, Flocker Lives On

Persistent storage for containers has improved to the point that one of the first companies to offer containerized storage has now folded. That’s the takeaway from the announcement this week that ClusterHQ ...
TIBCO Software Deploys Mashery as Container

TIBCO Software Deploys Mashery as Container

API management originally gained popularity mainly as a cloud service that used to provide some command and control over how data was shared between web applications within the context of a larger ...
Trends that Will Shape the Container Ecosystem in 2017

Trends that Will Shape the Container Ecosystem in 2017

Baked-in Swarm. Docker on Windows. Red Hat’s OCID fork-that’s-not-a-fork. These were the big container stories of 2016. What does 2017 hold in store for the container ecosystem? Here are some predictions. Perhaps ...