Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Docker is hot. Docker is cool. But Docker is nowhere near a sustainable business. Despite being top-of-mind for every startup and ...

Creation of an on-site private cloud for agile software development and IT operations, or DevOps, is one of the primary enterprise use cases for open source technology. Going beyond the hypervisor and ...

Container instances. Calling docker run on an OCI image results in the allocation of system resources to create a ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. When a Docker container is first explained to you, it's hard not to wonder if these Linux structures ...

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

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 ...

VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...

When CoreOS introduced its AppC container format as an alternative to Docker, one question jumped out: Would anyone other than CoreOS adopt it? The short answer appears to be yes. To varying degrees, ...