What makes this important, even vital, news to the larger world of system administrators, datacenter managers, and cloud architects, is that Google, Red Hat, and Parallels are now helping build the ...

Specifically, it's a toolkit to assemble custom Linux subsystems with the initial intention to create a more native experience for Windows and Mac macOS desktops and cloud platforms. This program was ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

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Switching to Linux has always been hyped up as a leap of faith in computing circles, as though using anything besides Windows and macOS would cost you dearly. Sure, it costs you time to set up Linux ...

Docker provides a powerful tool for creating lightweight images and containerized processes, but did you know it can make your development environment part of the DevOps pipeline too? Whether you're ...

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise As an alternative to virtual machines, containers on Linux systems have been slowly gaining traction as of late. Containers essentially split ...

Red Hat is today deepening its relationship with, and support of, Docker, the initiative that is taking Linux containers and re-popularizing them for the cloud age. Alongside its support of the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Dockercon 2017 conference today Docker and Microsoft revealed they are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud. Using a new Linux ...

It's just as powerful and simple, but (if you want) it can be self-hosted for maximum privacy.

Kubernetes, the container management solution originally open sourced by Google, is deemed ready for mainstream use as it reaches version 1 today. Alongside this software versioning milestone, Google ...

Docker started out in 2012 as an open source project, originally named dotcloud, to build single-application Linux containers. Since then, Docker has become an immensely popular development tool, ...