Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Container-based software development has been a seriously disruptive force in the IT world over the past 12 to 18 months. Be it the use of Java's bytecode interpreter or VMWare's OS images, ...

In contrast, Docker Swarm is often regarded as the inferior orchestration tool, as it’s not only restricted to Docker ...

Cloud computing has paved the way for programmable infrastructure, which brought extreme automation into software development lifecycle. The ability to provision resources, configuring them on the fly ...

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 ...

Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor for the Docker open source project, just announced the acquisition of Orchard Laboratories, Ltd. For an undisclosed amount. Orchard has a long history with Docker ...

Shippable is a young startup born from the founders' experience at the larger end of town. Shippable's CEO, Avi Cavale was previously at Microsoft where he worked for over 10 years on projects such as ...

It’s been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution. Docker has gone through its share of ups and downs since then, ...