Look out for containers-as-a-service. 1. Container use will continue its rapid rise. With downloads of Docker images having risen from 67 million in December 2014 to 1.2 billion just a year later, ...

In my Introduction to Docker series, I covered the basics of what Docker is, how to install it and how to download images and start (instantiate) them. I also discussed networking and storage for ...

For instance, Docker 0.8 client provides a small virtual machine, called Boot2Docker, that allows a developer to build a Docker container on an Apple Macintosh OS X workstation.

Containers have captured the imagination of the enterprise in recent months, and no one is more enthusiastic than VMware. The virtualization company, in fact, led some of the initial research into ...

Traditional late adopters are jumping in early. Simon Maple, developer advocate at ZeroTurnaround, was surprised by the alacrity with which big business embraced containerization."Docker is something ...

Docker and the OCI standard. Containers were conceived as a way to bundle up and organize a clutch of native capabilities in Linux, such as running processes in isolation.

A container, however, is based on a shared operating-system kernel. This, as James Bottomley, Parallels‘ CTO of server virtualization and a leading Linux kernel developer, explained at the Linux ...

How I use Docker with Proxmox for the perfect home lab duo. Although Proxmox provides built-in support for LXC containerization, it's possible to run Docker containers on the virtualization platform ...

The open source Docker container technology is taking on the server virtualization market, offering what some see as a faster alternative to running full virtual machines over hypervisors.