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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. This article is more than 10 years old. When Docker launched a year or so ago, it ...

Unlike simple file copies, Duplicati performs block-level deduplication. This means after the first full backup, it only ...

So, you might be wondering why I'm using Portainer when my Synology NAS has built-in Docker support. You see, Portainer solves a surprisingly common problem — accessibility. Docker is powerful, but ...

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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 ...

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 ...