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 ...

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Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a ...

To put it simply, Pi-hole is an open-source DNS sinkhole —a simple, network-level ad and tracker blocker that serves as the ...

Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher ...

A look at using Kubernetes to create, deploy and manage thousands of container images. If you've read the first two articles in this series, you now should be familiar with Linux kernel control groups ...

Around 20% of the top 1,000 most popular Docker containers on the Docker Hub portal are impacted by a misconfiguration that can expose users systems to attacks, under certain conditions. The flaw is ...