by Melissa Palmer | Feb 13, 2018 | Containers, Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms
Fans of the open source ecosystem will undoubtedly recognize the names Red Hat and CoreOS. Red Hat has has long been the leader of open source in the enterprise with a huge following of many community projects including Fedora, Ansible, Ceph, and many others. CoreOS...
by Melissa Palmer | Jul 12, 2016 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms, Virtualization
It’s been a long journey for Kubernetes over the last year. We first talked about Kubernetes here on 24 x7 IT Connection in August of 2015. Back then, Kubernetes was just a year old, with its 1.0 release landing in June of 2015. Now, we’re up to Kubernetes 1.3,...
by Melissa Palmer | Feb 9, 2016 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Open Source, Platforms
Recently, CoreOS, the creators of a streamlined Linux distribution with running containers in mind, announced the 1.0 release of Rocket (rkt), their home grown container runtime environment. CoreOS was initially released in October of 2013, and has seen a massive...
by Melissa Palmer | Aug 13, 2015 | Linux, Melissa Palmer, Platforms, Virtualization
One of the things tiny linux distributions lend themselves so well to are container technologies. We’ve talked about Docker here before on 24×7 IT Connection, so let’s take a look at another platform that works along with Docker, Kubernetes. What is Kubernetes?...
by Melissa Palmer | Jul 16, 2015 | Linux, Melissa Palmer
When it comes to the world of cloud and web applications, thin is in. By that we mean that thin, agile operating systems that can be easily deployed and managed are the ultimate target for rapid application deployment. Linux has long been the standard in web...
