CoreOS Container Linux is an open-source container operating system designed to support Kubernetes. The CoreOS flavor of container infrastructure management uses the Rocket or Docker container engine, ...

Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a public preview of a new Linux-based operating system that it has built specifically to run containers on virtual machines or bare-metal hosts in the cloud. The ...

You’ve always been able to run containers on a variety of operating systems: Zones on Solaris; Jails on BSD; Docker on Linux and now Windows Server; OpenVZ on Linux, and so on. As Docker in particular ...

With first-quarter shipments exceeding Macs in the United States, Chromebooks are very popular. Schools and enterprises choose Chromebooks for their very streamlined use case: low cost, fast boot ...

A key but quiet component of Cisco’s “open” data center operating system is the ability to build applications and microservices via Linux containers. It’s not a new capability but an increasingly ...

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

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Optimized for the VMware hypervisor, Photon OS is an easy-to-use container OS with all the advantages of virtual hardware With the Photon open source project, VMware hopes to build a community around ...

In front of a crowd at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, Microsoft showed off a new Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016. The move would break down a fundamental wall in ...