Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

Docker’s recent advances have made it the darling of startups and innovators throughout the IT world, but one pain point causes admins and developers alike to bite their nails: networking. Managing ...

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.

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Cisco and Docker today announced an expanded partnership that will see further integration of container management software from Docker with infrastructure equipment. Cisco also released a 1.0 version ...

The amount of software built from and on top of Docker keeps growing. The folks behind CoreOS, the Linux distribution that uses Docker containers as a fundamental building block, have released Rudder, ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is gearing up for a push to make the Container Network Interface (CNI) an industry standard. “The network overlay is essentially free,” said Aniszczyk. He ...

In the fast-evolving landscape of software development, containerization has emerged as a revolutionary technology. Containers encapsulate applications and their dependencies, ensuring consistent ...

You don’t have to back up everything about every container, but it’s important to back up configurations for running and managing them in case of disaster. Yes, your container infrastructure needs ...