Articles about Containers

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Five experts explain how software development and operations teams are adjusting to the rapid changes caused by cloud computing

While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting… Read More

Portland’s Twistlock raises $33M Series C round as demand for cloud-native security grows

As more and more companies start developing applications on top of cloud computing platforms, sometimes they need a little help… Read More

Docker CEO Steve Singh says container company is approaching “triple digit” millions in bookings

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Docker’s pivot from technology darling to enterprise vendor appears to be paying off, as the company… Read More

Tech companies are still knocking down myths about container security, but it’s getting better

SAN FRANCISCO – As enterprise companies take up the mantle of “digital transformation,” the modern-day tech marketing moniker for the… Read More

Containers and microservices become mainstream: Learn how they can work for you at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Over the last several years, containers and microservices have become some of the most quickly adopted enterprise software development technologies… Read More

Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, which lets you deploy containers with utter disregard for hardware, now generally available

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances,… Read More

With support for Kubernetes now baked in, Docker makes its case as the most flexible container management platform

Docker lost the Container Orchestration War of 2017, as brief and relatively amicable as it was. Now the company is… Read More

Red Hat snaps up CoreOS for $250M, adding a big piece to its container strategy

One of the more prominent startups on the cloud-native computing scene, San Francisco’s CoreOS, was acquired by Red Hat Tuesday… Read More

Born on the cloud but behind the times: How Pinterest doubled down on containers and Kubernetes

AUSTIN – Pinterest was one of the first clear cloud-computing success stories: now valued at over $12 billion, the massive… Read More

Key cloud computing group launches interoperability certification for Kubernetes

Thirty-two cloud computing companies building software around Kubernetes, the popular container-orchestration project, received a stamp of approval Monday from the… Read More

SEC filing shows Docker is raising a $75 million funding round

Docker has been pretty quiet in the months since Steve Singh was named CEO of the once white-hot container startup,… Read More

Oracle cloud acquisitions bear fruit, with a new serverless platform and container services

Eager to court developers and tech executives who have long seen it as a cloud also-ran, Oracle unveiled a new… Read More

How T-Mobile is using containers in production to increase uptime and save money

After a year of running containers in production, T-Mobile felt comfortable enough Tuesday night before a crowd of Seattle techies… Read More

Independent for two years, Kubernetes is at the center of the cloud — and now comes the hard part

The cloud computing world might be a different place if Google hadn’t open-sourced Kubernetes and donated the project to the… Read More

Report: Amazon Web Services warming up to Kubernetes for container management

If the cloud world really does settle on Kubernetes as the de facto standard for managing containerized workloads, Amazon Web… Read More

Cloud computing’s Open Container Initiative hits the 1.0 release milestone

Another light-touch cloud standards effort under the auspices of The Linux Foundation reached a milestone Wednesday, with the release of… Read More

Former tech adviser to Bill Gates raises $2M for cybersecurity startup that discourages hackers

Cybersecurity company Polyverse has raised $2 million in a new round of funding to continue building out its “moving target… Read More

Interview: New Docker CEO Steve Singh explains what’s next for the cloud container powerhouse

Container technology company Docker has a new leader, Steve Singh, the Seattle-area entrepreneur who was named the San Francisco-based company’s new… Read More

Container-security startup Twistlock secures $17M in new funding for Portland expansion

Twistlock has raised $17 million in new Series B funding to fuel future growth, and it plans to make that… Read More

With the early adopters in its court, Docker sets its sights on the rest of the world

There’s a point in the evolution of a successful enterprise technology company in which the world starts to revolve around… Read More

Microsoft acquires open-source software builder Deis to bolster container platforms

Microsoft said Monday that it has acquired Deis, a San Francisco company that builds open-source software to make the Kubernetes container platform… Read More

Docker unveils new enterprise initiative, boosting software containers for big businesses

Docker is launching a new Enterprise Edition of its popular software container technology, along with an initiative to let partners certify their technology… Read More

Thriving application-container market to grow 40% per year, hitting $2.7B by 2020, researcher says

The move toward containers — bundled application components that simplify developing and deploying software across different platforms and devices — is… Read More

Container startup ClusterHQ calls it quits, citing duplicated efforts

ClusterHQ, a San Francisco-based container-products startup, is shutting down operations effective immediately, chairman Mark Davis wrote in a blog post entitled… Read More

Docker donates a core piece of its container technology, an effort to fuel innovation by others

Docker, the venture-backed maker of the most popular offering for creating containerized applications, is donating a vital piece of its software to… Read More

New version of container orchestrator Kubernetes advances support for Windows containers

Just weeks after Amazon Web Services entered the container-management space with Blox, the leading open-source container-management product, Kubernetes, has moved… Read More

Microsoft Azure integrates open-source container manager Kubernetes, born inside Google

Kubernetes, an open-source container manager designed by Google in 2014 and then donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is… Read More

Microsoft and Docker bet big on containerized apps with release of Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016, due out next month, will gain new capabilities thanks to its inclusion of the commercially supported Docker Engine… Read More

Cisco acquires startup ContainerX, buying into container management amidst layoffs and declining revenue

Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused… Read More