• More Amazonian Announcements–AWS Anoints Docker And Makes A Nod Towards Star Wars

     

    Yesterday Amazon Web Services (AWS) wowed attendees at its re:Invent event by making a long list of big announcements – from infrastructure automation to new databases, from key management to service catalogs. The atmosphere at the event was excited, both from the usually cynical analysts who were dropping words like […]

  • Turtles All The Way Down–Containers On Top Of VMs, And What Actually Is Docker These Days?

     

    When Docker launched a year or so go, it was laser focused on taking an existing technology (Linux containerization or LXC) and building a modern application-centric ecosystem around it. Docker caught the attention of enterprises, startups and develope…

  • Shippable Raises $8M Series A For Dockerized Continuous Integration

     

    Any organization that sees software as a core part of how it delivers its business will be well aware that the shortening of software development lifecycles, and hence increasing of agility, is a key aim. One of the growing areas to help in this regard…

  • Pertino Jumps On The “Networking For Docker” Stage

     

    Considering the amazing uptake that Docker has received since its inception, it is understandable to think that every possible issue related to the project has been solved. But when one reflects upon the fact that Docker is only a year or so old, it st…

  • The End Of The Docker “Buts”–Microsoft To Enable Windows Docker Containers

     

    Wow. This is big news. The short story is that Microsoft and Docker have penned a partnership that will see developers able to create Windows Server Docker containers. The long story has lots of context to it. Ever since its launch, Docker has had almo…

  • Docker Makes Another Acquisition–Snaps Up CI Vendor Koality

     

    A couple of months ago Docker, the company responsible for the eponymously-named container project, announced the acquisition of Orchard, itself the creator Fig, a Docker-based application composition and orchestration tool. Since then Docker has announced a further $40 million funding round so its hardly surprising that M&A activity is still on […]

  • StackEngine Wants To Carve Itself An Operations Niche With Docker

     

    Docker truly is a wondrous thing. Not so much the technology (although I have to admit that containers are very cool) but more the ecosystem that it has built up in an incredibly short space of time. On a weekly basis I get an email from a vendor launc…

  • The Rumors Were True–Docker Funding Confirmed And $40 Million Enters The Coffers

     

    A few weeks ago a rumor surfaced that white-hot company Docker was raising a large round of between $40 million and $75 million. Today we have confirmation with news that lead investor Sequoia, alongside existing investors Benchmark Capital, Greylock P…

  • Weaving A Network Layer Into Docker – Weave Launches

     

    It’s fascinating to watch, seemingly overnight, a vibrant ecosystem being built up around Docker. While many rightly point out that Docker didn’t invent containers, it’s fair to say that the project took a fairly esoteric part of Linux technology and reinvented it for the modern age. In doing so Docker has encouraged the […]

  • DigitalOcean Finds Some Docker Love Via CoreOS

     

    DigitalOcean is a fast growing cloud infrastructure vendor who really has been meteoric in its progress – in December 2012 the company had some 100 web facing computers. Fast forward to June 2013 and that figure was up to 7000. Last month that figure had gone to a staggering 96000. DigitalOcean […]

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