Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware ...

CoreOS was the first to demonstrate how Docker and containerization could remake Linux. Now Canonical is getting into the game, albeit from a different direction. Canonical’s new project, LXD, or the ...

Containers are a hot topic. The technology, which has been most typified by Docker, enables applications to be deployed as a lightweight set of processes rather than an entire virtual machine (VM).

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

Vagrant and Docker both provision resources needed to support cloud-native deployments, though they focus on different parts of the deployment stack. Developers use Vagrant to provision VMs upon which ...

The idea of running applications within containers – also known as operating system (OS) level virtualisation – is not . The origins of the technology can be traced back to the days of the mainframe.