Say hello to Container Journal
Today we launched a sister site to devopsy.kinsta.cloud – Container Journal. The url for the site is http://www.containerjournal.com. The site is dedicated to spotlighting everything about containers and computing (as opposed to containers like in the Container Store). This includes not only the containers themselves, but everything that goes along with it. Topics wil include container management, data […]
ElasticBox enhances Container support with new release
ElasticBox announced a new version of their product today that enhances Container support. In yet another example of how important Containers are becoming to today’s software development scene, ElasticBox will now allow you to define microservices as Docker files in containers. Other enhancements include (from the press release) : UI Enhancement: Tags now make it […]
OCP is a victory for CoreOS and Containers in general
A broad coalition of major tech companies have joined forces to create the Open Container Project—or OCP. The move to develop and maintain common standards around software containers vindicates the CoreOS split from Docker and reunites the two in a common cause that will make all container platforms and technologies stronger. A press release announcing […]
Two paths to metal devops: cloud-like API driven & cluster building
I’ve been seeing a rising interest in metal DevOps fueled by containers and scale-out data center platforms (like Hadoop, Ceph & OpenStack) that run at the metal level. While I see this is a growing general trend (Packet, Internap, RackSpace, OpenStack Ironic, MaaS), I’m going to stay firmly within my wheelhouse and use OpenCrowbar as my reference here. […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]
DevOps, Containers and Faster Time-to-Parity
DevOps discussions often focus on the value of getting innovative applications to market quickly. And it’s true. Getting a cool new application into production quickly can help you differentiate yourself in today’s app-sensitive marketplace. But, in reality, most development is devoted to “Me Too” applications—and these apps are no less important to the business than […]
What’s hot with DevOps
DevOps as a movement to transform people, technology, processes for higher business value is here to stay. It’s disrupting organizational processes replacing the old with the new. Command and control IT, a historical approach to regulating tech top-down, is trending toward decentralization thanks to DevOps. Software source control is another such case. We saw Git take on the source control […]
Container Usage Survey
Is there any topic in IT hotter than containers today? Hard to make a case that there is. Whether it is Docker or Rocket, LHX or something else, it seems everyone is talking about them. But what are people actually doing with them? devopsy.kinsta.cloud and ClusterHQ are conducting a survey on actual and planned container […]
DevOps Teams: Containers Will Help You Become Future Ready
Container frameworks are emerging as a superior choice to create, manage, and run distributed applications in a scalable and secure fashion. Docker’s growth is testimony to the fact. There are 100 million downloads of the Docker Engine, 75,000 Dockerized applications, 770 contributors, and 50,000 third-party projects on GitHub using Docker in less than two years. […]
Get started with Docker with video training course from O’Reilly
Container platforms seem to be the fuel driving the next wave of app development. Docker didn’t invent the concept, but Docker’s meteoric rise made container technology mainstream. Don’t worry if you’re still not quite sure what Docker is or how to use it—O’Reilly Media has you covered with its Introduction to Docker video training course. […]
Docker Secures $95M in Series D Funding to Meet the Unrivaled Demand for Its Open Source Platform
Burgeoning Ecosystem Standardizes on Docker to Transform How Applications Are Built, Shipped and Run in the Modern Datacenter SAN FRANCISCO – April 14, 2015 – Docker, Inc., the organization behind the open platform for distributed applications, today announced that it has raised $95 million of Series D funding. This latest infusion builds on the successful […]
Hyper-V Containers combine virtualization with containerization
Containers are all the rage these days. You’re just not cool if you’re not using Docker or some other container technology to build and deploy your IT infrastructure. Traditional containers, however, lack sufficient security for some industries and companies, so Microsoft developed Hyper-V Containers. Container platforms like Docker and Rocket have significant momentum and have […]
Local DevOps NYC: Container Summit coming to NYC
Container Summit (https://www.joyent.com/containersummit) is a half-day technology conference in NYC on April 8th, focused on the future of containers in production. The event features container and microservices experts from Gartner, Walmart, Lucera, and Shopify as well as container ecosystem players like Docker, Tutum, InfoSiftr and Joyent. The goal of the event is to share best […]
Containers: Secure or Not, Here They Are
Containers are here. And it doesn’t mater whether or not containers are a transitional technology (they are, as our JP Morgenthal covered in Containers are designed for an antiquate application architecture) until all applications are designed for cloud and web-scale, containers will be part of the cloud and virtualization scene. Right now, containers are white […]
8 Signs of Docker Ecosystem Empire-Building
Docker’s meteoric rise on the strength of the continuous delivery movement’s thirst for containerization has been nothing short of remarkable. There’s perhaps no bigger sign of Docker’s uptake than in the build-up of its third-party ecosystem. The past year has seen partnerships galore from Docker and the biggest IT industry players, plus notable support of […]
The Docker whale swallows another one, Kitematic
Docker announced another acquisition yesterday, the 2nd one in the last two weeks. This time they have swallowed up Kitematic, a Canadian open source project that makes it setting up Docker on a Mac really easy, Like up and running in 5 minutes easy. I know some of you may be asking yourself, “I am […]
Red Hat launches platform to support Docker, Kubernetes and enterprise-grade containerization
Red Hat continued its momentum to capture a piece of the containerization market last week with the official launch of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host operating system. According to Red Hat executives, this is a natural progression in the Red Hat ecosystem as more of the company’s customers embrace Docker and other […]
Are VMs becoming El Caminos?
In 2010, it looked as if virtualization had won. We expected all servers to virtualize workloads and the primary question was which cloud infrastructure manager would dominate. Now in 2015, the picture is not as clear. I’m seeing a trend that threatens the “virtualize all things” battle cry. Really, it’s two intersecting trends: metal is […]
Docker tinkers with Docker Hub for performance improvements
Docker’s strengthening its infrastructure components to accommodate the volume of use and wide range of use cases that inevitably crop up from such hockey-stick growth. The latest improvements come by way of refinements made to Docker Hub over the last month, according to an announcement made by the company yesterday. The Docker Hub team reported […]
Containers Are Designed For an Antiquated Application Architecture
In his most recent GigaOm article, “We’re finally headed towards autonomous, self-migrating containers for cloud-application automation“, David Linthicum discusses the value that containers, such as Docker and CoreOS Rocket, are bringing to DevOps and cloud systems management. For the record nothing Dave states in the article is incorrect with regard to the expressed value that […]
Webinar: Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads
As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses using containers and CoreOS, and how are they monitoring container performance. After attending this webinar, you will have a better understanding of: * […]
Native support for Docker apps coming soon to Parallels
When I think of Parallels, the first thing that comes to mind is virtual machines. I have used Parallels for years as a means of running a virtualized instance of a Windows operating system from within Mac OS X. In addition to virtual machines, though, Parallels was also doing containers before containers were cool, and […]
Microsoft partners with Docker to bring containers to Windows Server
Docker has taken the DevOps world by storm, and that has caught the attention of Microsoft. Now, Microsoft and Docker are teaming up to bring native support for the container technology to the next generation(s) of Windows Server. Docker is an open platform that enables organizations to run any application as a Docker container. The […]