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Docker Boosts Security on Containers
Docker Inc. has announced a new set of security enhancements at DockerCon EU, celebrated in Barcelona on 16-17th/Nov. These enhancements includes hardware signing of container images, content auditing through image scanning and vulnerability detection and granular access control policies with user namespaces.
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Structure 2015 - State of the Cloud and Container Ecosystems
Rising from the ashes of GigaOm the tribal gathering of cloud elders that is Structure has returned, and got off to a strong start with Battery Ventures' Adrian Cockcroft presenting on the State of the Cloud and Container Ecosystems. Cockcroft paid particular attention to the impact of containers, which wasn’t even a major discussion topic at the last Structure conference in 2013.
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ContainerX Launching Container Platform for Enterprise IT
ContainerX will launch their ‘Container Platform for Enterprise IT’ at DockerCon Europe next week in Barcelona. Described as ‘vSphere for Containers’ the platform aims to give developers a self service capability using the Docker command line, whilst providing operations teams with capabilities that they’re familiar with from managing virtual machines.
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Jelastic Joker 4.0 released with Advanced Docker Features
Jelastic, a PaaS and container based IaaS provider, released Joker (Jelastic + Docker) 4.0 with advanced Docker features including horizontal scaling for containers, support for stateful containers with live migration and Docker volumes. The company has made improvements to Docker’s core technology to achieve the features in the Joker release.
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HashiCorp Release Nomad Scheduler and Otto Application Delivery Tool
At the inaugural HashiConf conference, held in Portland, USA, HashiCorp announced the release of a new distributed scheduler platform named ‘Nomad’ that is capable of scheduling containers, VMs and standalone applications; and a new application delivery tool named ‘Otto’ that builds upon the existing Vagrant tool by enabling the management of remote application deployments.
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Force12.io Create a ‘Microscaling’ Framework for Apache Mesos
Force12.io have released a prototype ‘microscaling’ container demonstration running on the Apache Mesos cluster manager, which they claim starts and stops ‘priority 1’ and ‘priority 2’ containers more rapidly than traditional autoscaling approaches when given a simulated demand for the differing workloads. InfoQ discussed the goals and methodology of this approach with Force12.io’s Ross Fairbanks.
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Microsoft and Docker Preview Windows Server Containers
It is now possible to run Windows-specific software inside containers. Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 is the first Windows release to support this technology. Windows Server Containers offer very similar capabilities to Linux containers, but in the context of the Windows ecosystem. Docker also released its own technical preview that showcases how it's able to manage Windows containers.
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InfoQ China Establishes Container Technology Club
On August 28, 2015, the first CNUTCon was held in Beijing. At the conference, Kevin Huo, the founder of Geekbang & InfoQ China, announced that InfoQ has joined forces with domestic front-line IT technology companies to establish the CNUT Container Technology Club.
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Project Calico v1.0 'Layer 3' Virtualised Networking Solution Released
Project Calico have released Calico v1.0, a virtualised layer 3 networking solution for VM and container workloads, which enables flexible, scalable and secure IP-based communication without the need for an overlay network. The release includes integration with the OpenStack 'Neutron' networking stack, and ‘proof of concept level’ integrations with Docker, Kubernetes and other related technology.
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Q&A with Bryan Cantrill: Running Containers on Bare Metal with Triton
InfoQ recently sat down with Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, and asked about his thoughts on container technology, running Docker on bare metal, and how Joyent is driving technical innovation within this space through the development of their Triton platform.
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CoreOS Inc, Releases 'Tectonic Preview' Commercial Kubernetes v1 Platform
CoreOS Inc, have released Tectonic Preview, a commercial container infrastructure offering that supports the recently released Kubernetes v1.0, CoreOS, Docker and rkt. CoreOS also announced that the inaugural 'Tectonic Summit' conference will be run within New York in December.
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Crossing the Chasm of Container Adoption in Production
Only 38% of IT professionals use containers in production environments, according to a recent survey. ClusterHQ, which ran the survey of the current state of container usage and adoption, also concludes that 73% of respondents are running containers in a VM environment.
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Monitoring Microservices and Containers: A Challenge by Adrian Cockcroft
At GlueCon 2015, Adrian Cockcroft presented a list of rules for monitoring microservice and container-based applications. In addition to these guidelines, Cockcroft also highlighted a series of challenges for monitoring cloud-native container-based systems, and introduced his ‘Spigo/simianviz’ microservice simulation and visualisation tool.