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 ...

Red Hat's platform business vice president Jim Totton believes the current focus on containers could signal the growth of an alternative type of computing architecture — but says it's not yet clear ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest version of Red Hat’s commercially licensed Enterprise Linux distribution became available to all this morning, and to the delight of cloud hipsters everywhere, it includes support for Linux ...

They let you test new software without setting your OS on fire ...

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 ...

In front of a crowd at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, Microsoft showed off a new Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016. The move would break down a fundamental wall in ...

If there’s been one constant through Linux’s 25 years in the wild, it’s change. The kernel itself has been through dozens of revisions; Linux distributions for most every use case have emerged; and ...