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What Do Containers Have to Do with Being Cloud-Native, Anyway?
“Cloud-native” is a term you frequently hear during conversations about containers. What does it mean, and what does it have to do with containers? Let’s take a look. In a simple sense, ...
Rancher’s Longhorn Project Brings Distributed Storage to Kubernetes
Rancher is expanding the scope of its Longhorn Project by extending the distributed storage platform to support all available Kubernetes clusters, as the open source software firm continues to bet on Kubernetes’ ...
MapR Ties Kubernetes to Persistent Storage
MapR Technologies at the Strata Data Conference this week announced it is incorporating Kubernetes into the MapR Data Fabric developed to provide access to persistent storage for both monolithic and microservices-based applications ...
Arm Sees Containers Driving IoT Applications
Arm, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 conference this week, announced it will make available an on-premises edition of its Mbed Cloud platform for managing internet of things (IoT) devices based ...
Codefresh Adds Helm Managed Service
Codefresh at the Helm Summit 2018 conference this week unfurled a managed service that combines the open source Helm tools for deploying microservices based on containers with testing tools that validate those ...
Red Hat’s Acquisition of CoreOS: 4 Reasons Why
Red Hat’s CoreOS acquisition is the current talk of the container world. Why did an open source giant (Red Hat) buy the vendor of an increasingly obscure open source operating system (Container ...
CNCF Adds Rook Storage Project for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that it is adding a storage project that promises to greatly accelerate the number of stateful applications that could run natively on top of ...
What’s the Status of LXD, Canonical’s Container Hypervisor?
Is LXD, Canonical’s open source container hypervisor, still an important part of the container ecosystem? That’s a fair question to ask, because no one has heard much about it lately. However, the ...
Tigera Marries Container Networking to Service Mesh
All the technologies required to deploy containers in the enterprise can be a bit overwhelming to consume. With an eye toward making that easier to achieve Tigera has launched Tigera CNX, a ...
Oracle Adds to Kubernetes Management Offerings
Oracle, at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference, announced that it is making two tools for managing Kubernetes clusters available as open source projects. An Fn Installer developed by Oracle makes it ...
