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IBM Brings Red Hat Container Platform to Mainframes

IBM this week announced that the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is now available on the distribution of Linux that IBM makes available on mainframes. Barry Baker, vice president of IBM Z ...
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Wind River Embraces Containers for Embedded Systems

Wind River this week announced it has added support for Docker container images and Kubernetes container orchestration software for its Wind River Linux operating system that is employed on a variety of ...
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Tigera Embraces eBPF to Advance Container Networking

Tigera today announced it is adding support within the open source Calico network software project for the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) additions to the Linux kernel. eBPF is intended to provide ...
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Docker Inc. Extends Tigera Networking Alliance

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 conference, Docker Inc. today announced that it is extending an existing networking alliance with Tigera to include an instance of the open source Project Calico ...
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k3OS Takes Kubernetes to the Edge

In the tradition of embedded Linux comes k3OS, an open source project for managing Kubernetes instances on embedded platforms at the edge. k3OS combines a Linux distro with a k3s Kubernetes distro ...
IBM Advances Mainframe Container Strategy

IBM Advances Mainframe Container Strategy

IBM, as part of a larger strategy to make it possible to run cloud-native applications on mainframes, this week announced IBM z/OS Container Extensions, which makes it possible to run applications built ...
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SUSE Melds Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry Further

At the SUSECON 2019 conference this week, SUSE announced that it has advanced its effort to unify the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment with Kubernetes by adding support for Project Eirini in ...
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The Differences Between Linux and Windows Containers

Docker’s popularity has been driven in large part by its promise of letting admins build an application once and then deploy it anywhere. But this promise can be misleading when you are ...
Containers vs. Unikernels

Containers vs. Unikernels: An Apples-to-Oranges Comparison

I was asked recently to write a containers-versus-unikernels article, and I said, “Sure, but it won’t be the article you think it is because I share Per Buer’s sentiment that unikernels are ...
Canonical Simplifies Kubernetes Deployments

Canonical Simplifies Kubernetes Deployments

Canonical is moving to make it easier to deploy Kubernetes clusters using the Snap packaging software the company developed to deploy software across multiple distributions of Linux in an offering for Kubernetes ...