orchestration tools
Cloudify Orchestration Platform Forms Basis for New Company
How important have orchestration tools grown? Important enough for GigaSpaces to spin off Cloudify, which offers orchestration for containers, cloud applications and much more, into a company of its own. The move, ...
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 ...
Containers and Virtual Machines are Friends, Not Competitors
Containers versus virtual machines. That’s the rhetoric that has shaped the conversation so far as organizations evaluate solutions such as Docker and compare them to VMware. But what they should really be ...
Stateful Apps and Containers: Squaring the Circle
“Stateful containers” may sound like an oxymoron. That’s because stateful apps—those that require persistent data storage—can seem like odd matches for a container environment. But that’s not necessarily the case. To date, ...