F or years, running Docker on Windows meant allocating multiple gigabytes of RAM to a heavy, full-blown virtual machine (VM), ...

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 ...

Containers are a hot topic. The technology, which has been most typified by Docker, enables applications to be deployed as a lightweight set of processes rather than an entire virtual machine (VM).

Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware ...

Vagrant and Docker both provision resources needed to support cloud-native deployments, though they focus on different parts of the deployment stack. Developers use Vagrant to provision VMs upon which ...

Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. The technology started out as a project of The Next Platform-as-a-service company dotCloud in 2013. It very quickly became the ...

The recent controversy over Joyent’s stewardship of Node.js has made it easy to forget about the company’s other cloud and container projects. With its latest project, Joyent joins the ranks of ...

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For years, I treated my home lab like a necessary chore – a collection of services running on command line interfaces that required constant SSH logins just to check logs or reboot a container. I knew ...