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Managing Virtual Containers

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Kubernetes community takes over massive Google test bed

  Google will donate $9 million in GCP resources and undergo a three-year handoff process to put a massive Kubernetes test bed under CNCF control. Users wonder, what happens next.

• August 27, 2018 27 Aug'18

  Free Kubernetes security tools broaden enterprise choices

  Kubernetes security tools give enterprise IT shops strategic approaches to container security that go beyond shoring up individual container instances.

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  IT pros debate upstream vs. packaged Kubernetes implementations

  As IT vendors race to package Kubernetes implementations, their fiercest competition is not from other vendors, but from pure upstream code and DIY container orchestration projects.

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  GCP Marketplace beats AWS, Azure to Kubernetes app store

  Google is the first major public cloud provider to sell prepackaged apps for container orchestration clusters, but expect AWS and Azure to follow quickly with Kubernetes marketplaces of their own.

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Container security emerges in IT products enterprises know and trust

  Established IT security vendors add containers to their repertoire, and IT pros must decide between trusted platform integration and the latest features from startups.

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Docker roadmap champions multi-cloud container management

  Docker Enterprise Edition will roll out multi-cloud container management in beta later in 2018 and go head-to-head with Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher.

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  Chef Habitat early adopters sing app automation praises

  Chef Habitat can ease application deployments and updates, and ensure high availability, but there's still a lot of confusion among IT pros about precisely where it fits in the DevOps toolchain.

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  APM strikes back in Kubernetes monitoring wars

  New Relic and AppDynamics up the ante on Prometheus with dashboards that display Kubernetes time-series data, and monitoring alerts that sync with IT automation tools.

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform adds CoreOS automation

  Red Hat plans to swiftly integrate technology recently acquired from CoreOS into its current product line, but the CoreOS name will stick around.

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Cisco and CoreOS Kubernetes integrations swell IT buyer choices

  Cisco and CoreOS added to a growing number of Kubernetes integration options, prompting enterprise IT buyers to consider whether they should rely on one vendor or take on heavy lifting themselves.

• May 03, 2018 03 May'18

  Google gVisor serves up container security isolation

  There are other VM-like approaches for container security isolation, but Google's Kubernetes cred could make its gVisor a multi-cloud standard for security-sensitive enterprise apps.

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  CF community debates Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes integration

  Cloud Foundry PaaS and Kubernetes container orchestration each appeal to DevOps shops, and users want consolidation, as the two camps continue to negotiate.

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Docker vs. Mesosphere battleground shifts focus to Kubernetes

  Kubernetes integrations in Docker and Mesosphere are generally available, vying for enterprise attention with a focus on ease of use.

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Bharti Airtel overhauls test/dev with container infrastructure

  Startup AppOrbit's approach to container infrastructure deployment beat out Red Hat's OpenShift as a large Indian telco overhauled its test environments for speedier development.

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  Kubernetes 1.10 release hits mature enterprise container market

  Kubernetes 1.10 adds incremental feature updates, but enterprises will look to third-party products to integrate upstream code before they embrace it.