Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources, but ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

Name a tech company, any tech company, and they’re investing in containers. Google, of course. IBM, yes. Microsoft, check. But, just because containers are extremely popular, doesn’t mean virtual ...

With containers such as Docker on Linux platforms starting to gain some momentum as an alternative to virtual machines, managing containers and virtual machines under a common framework is likely to ...

Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. The technology started out as a project of The Next Platform-as-a-service company dotCloud in 2013. It very quickly became the ...

If you had any doubts about just how popular Docker's containers are, the news that VMware is partnering with Docker, Google, and Pivotal to integrate Docker containers into VMware's virtualization ...