If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...
After his introductory series, Tom Fenton deploys a database on Docker and integrates it with other apps deployed from other Docker images. In my Introduction to Docker series, I covered the basics of ...
The idea of running applications within containers – also known as operating system (OS) level virtualisation – is not . The origins of the technology can be traced back to the days of the mainframe.
Docker is both an open source project and the name of a startup that focuses on Linux Containers. Containers are the idea of running multiple applications on a single host. It’s similar to compute ...
Containers encapsulate discrete components of application logic provisioned only with the minimal resources needed to do their job. Unlike virtual machines (VM), containers have no need for embedded ...
There is really no debating the usefulness of software containers, as more and more organizations are using Docker at every stage in the software development lifecycle. But one of the biggest barriers ...
Unless you've been living under a rock, chances are you've heard your software developers talking about Docker and related Containerization technologies. As a CXO though, you may have some questions ...