If you have your ear even slightly to the ground of the software community, you’ll have heard of Docker. Having recently enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity, it continues to attract users at a ...

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...

Five years ago, Solomon Hykes helped found a business, Docker, which sought to make containers easy to use. With the release of Docker 1.0 in June 2014, the buzz became a roar. And, over the years, it ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and ...

In real life when you need to transport something, you place it inside a container. It can then travel on a boat, on a train or even be pulled on the road by a truck, enabling it to get to its ...

The other big name from the world of containers that you’ve almost certainly heard is Docker. Docker wasn’t the first container engine but in many ways it has come to define containerization. Much of ...

Links with Docker, work on Google's Kubernetes project, and its own use of Drawbridge all underline Microsoft's enthusiasm for containers, according to new Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. But despite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Justin is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine. I was a Docker skeptic. The idea of containers was not particularly new (BSD ...