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 ...

Microsoft has made available its first Docker image for Linux in the Azure Marketplace, and is delivering its largest VM for the public cloud, as well as a new cryptographic key storage offering.

Docker has realized that Microsoft's new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 has made Windows much more attractive both to Docker and its container developers for both Windows and Linux platforms.

Here we will compare and contrast Docker and VMs and help guide you as to which of one is the best fit for your DevOps needs. A virtual machine (VM) is a representation of a computer in software. A ...

I’ve been a fan of containers ever since I came across Docker. Between their lightweight nature, decent isolation, and a ...

With features like automatic load balancing, secure networking, and simple service updates, Docker Swarm empowers developers to deploy and manage applications with confidence. The future of Docker ...

Unikernels also are naturally more secure than containers or VMs. If attackers are able to gain access to a container or VM, they have an entire Linux installation to exploit. A unikernel, on the ...

Photon is an umbrella term for multiple projects that include ways to deploy containers on a VM, using Photon OS, as well as ways to deploy containers as VMs on VMware infrastructure.

When Docker launched a year or so ago, it was laser focused on taking an existing technology (Linux containerization or LXC) and building a modern application-centric ecosystem around it. Docker ...