• Docker Acquires SocketPlane To Help With Container Networking

     

    News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane’s small six-person tea will be joining Docker and this deal can be seen as a case of Doc…

  • Docker Talks Up The Open Ecosystem, While Introducing Products That Challenge It

     

    At Docker’s European conference last year, the company responded to some concerns from within the ecosystem about its aggressive approach and introduced a new concept. The concept would see Docker include some components natively that would be able to be replaced by third party tools. Named the “batteries included but swappable” […]

  • Cloud.com Founders Start New Thing–You Guess It, It’s Docker-Related. The War Escalates

     

    When Citrix bought Cloud.com a few years ago, the deal was widely heralded as the start of something huge. Citrix then went on to re-brand Cloud.com as CloudStack while, in the meantime, the OpenStack initiative began. Long story short, while CloudStac…

  • Docker Creates A More Robust Project Structure

     

    Open source projects are funny things – often started by an individual or a small group, they soon (assuming they’re successful in this early stage) gain a momentum of their own. After this point an uncomfortable situation developers – is the project big enough for a more formal structure, or should it […]

  • Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Updates–Key Vault, Monster VMs and Docker Awesomeness

     

    Cue this month’s press release from Microsoft with its list of updates to the Azure public cloud platform, and cure some innovations that will make both developers and enterprises alike pleased. As Microsoft pushes hard to catch up to its number one pu…

  • Responding To Ecosystem Concerns, Docker Talks Plugin Architecture

     

    The last month or two have been one with a steep learning curve for Docker, the company behind the eponymously-named open source containerization initiative. Initially Docker was focused purely on the container piece but, over the past 12 months or so,…

  • At DockerCon Amsterdam, An Under Fire Docker Makes A Raft Of Announcements

     

    This week’s DockerCon event in Amsterdam was set to be a high profile showing – the first time this white-hot open source initiative was showcasing itself in Europe. The event was somewhat overshadowed by an announcement from CoreOS that it is launching a competitive containerization initiative. But notwithstanding the blemish, the […]

  • The Battle Continues, Joyent Launches Docker-Supported Infrastructure And Takes A Swipe At Rocket

     

    This week the formerly happy world of the Docker containerization initiative was rocked by an announcement from CoreOS that it was launching a competing container standard. Rocket, the name of CoreOS’ initiative, is aimed at fixing the inherent flaws (as CoreOS see it) to the Docker approach. Given this announcement, […]

  • Cue Some Docker Tensions. Arise The First Of The Breakaway Container Solutions

     

    The Docker initiative has been a copy book example of how open source projects should work. No big brother there to dictate terms, no breakaway members doing their own thing. It really has been (until now) a happy and communal sort of a place. That app…

  • Docker Discovers Major Vulnerability–Latest Version Immune

     

    News from Docker, the vendor behind the eponymous Docker containerization initiative, that a discovery has been made of a critical flaw in some versions of the software. From the notification: The Docker engine, up to and including version 1.3.1, was …

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