In previous posts, we have discussed what a container is. But how do developers turn containers into a containerized application? Let’s discuss more today around containerized application design. Setting Expectations If you’re a developer or an SRE, the contents of this post may seem obvious to you. But to traditional operations folk, there are nuances […]
What are container management systems?
Let’s discuss container management systems. So far, we’ve explored the history of containers, and talked about what a container actually is from an ops perspective. In the last post, we discussed how devs use containers: to build applications. Let’s delve deeper into how they actually plan to do that. As a reminder, this blog series […]
Getting Started with Docker Container Platform for Windows 2016
The container ship is sailing with everyone on board, including those who are running Windows 2016 in their data centers. Docker Container Platform for Windows Server 2016 officially introduces Docker to the Windows ecosystem. Docker continues to gain serious momentum among the container ecosystems, and Microsoft is making their direction well known as they prepare […]
Kubernetes 1.3 Released With New Enterprise Features
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, which was announced on July 6, […]
Use Any Storage with Docker Containers for your Enterprise
As enterprises continue to become interested in Docker; the types of features we have access to and the available third party integrations become more and more important. You may have previously seen this topic covered on 24×7 IT Connection by Melissa Palmer. In this post she explains what Docker is and why we care. More […]
Docker Speeds up the Ship with New Releases
Docker has continued to gain more and more momentum, and recently announced a slew of new releases. One of the areas Docker gets stuck in port on has often been enterprise level features. These new updates further enhance features that have the potential to help greatly with enterprise deployments. Docker Swarm 1.0 Docker Swarm, or […]
Kubernetes and the Tectonic Shift
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? Kubernetes is a project by Google, which seeks to provide open source container […]
Microsoft Announces Future SSH Support in Windows
by Melissa Palmer Microsoft recently announced brand new integration between Windows and Linux in the form of SSH support coming in the not so distant future. Microsoft recently announced on the MSDN blog that the PowerShell team will support, and contribute to the OpenSSH community. We can venture to guess this integration will be invoked by […]
Small and Powerful, Microsoft Introduces Windows Nano Server
by Melissa Palmer Microsoft Ignite has once again passed us by, with a slew of new product announcements. While it was announced before Ignite, Windows Nano certainly was a hot topic of discussion. I haven’t been this excited about Windows in a long time, the last time was probably when Windows Server Core was announced…and, well […]
Beyond Docker: Building your Docker Machine, Swarming and Composing
by Melissa Palmer In our recent article titled Everything You Need to Know about Getting Started with Docker, we looked at the basics of Docker and how to get a quick environment up and running using Boot2Docker. This was a nice start, but really only touches lightly on how Docker should be evaluated. Docker is beoming […]