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 ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

With Docker 1.5 freshly released, the creators of the software-containerization system are looking to fix its networking issues, which have long been a source of pain and criticism. The long-term ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of software-defined networking (SDN) startup ...

Flocker promises to address issues of data portability and migration between systems, but the project is still in its early stages For all of Docker’s capabilities, it can’t pull yet off a host of ...

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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 ...

This is the third article in a series on Docker. Previously, I walked you through installing a Docker container and downloading/starting images to create one or more run instances of the images.

Docker is both an open source project and the name of a startup that focuses on Linux Containers. Containers are the idea of running multiple applications on a single host. It’s similar to compute ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...