If you had any doubts about just how popular Docker's containers are, the news that VMware is partnering with Docker, Google, and Pivotal to integrate Docker containers into VMware's virtualization ...

Better yet, modern hypervisors can run most of the popular operating systems inside VMs – including FreeBSD distros and even ...

Docker is hot. Docker is cool. But Docker is nowhere near a sustainable business. Despite being top-of-mind for every startup and a rising number of enterprises, some reports put the company's annual ...

Linux container technology is getting lots of attention for its ability to solve technical challenges, and now VMware is teaming up with Docker and Google to take it deeper into the enterprise. On ...

CoreOS was the first to demonstrate how Docker and containerization could remake Linux. Now Canonical is getting into the game, albeit from a different direction. Canonical’s new project, LXD, or the ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has brought the Linux kernel to Windows. Does that really matter, you might ask, since WSL already did an excellent job of emulating Linux? Oh yeah it does. It ...

When CoreOS introduced its AppC container format as an alternative to Docker, one question jumped out: Would anyone other than CoreOS adopt it? The short answer appears to be yes. To varying degrees, ...