At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

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I have been self-hosting several apps in Docker containers on my home server out of sheer convenience. Taking a leaf from the books of my XDA colleagues who use Docker in their home labs for ...

Containers-as-a-service platforms make it easier for developers to deploy Docker containers and assemble them into applications, most often enlisting Kubernetes for the job As modern, containerized ...

Microsoft has made the preview of Azure Container Service (ACS) available to a broader set of developers. Originally announced at AzureCon in October 2015, the service went into private tech preview ...

The new capabilities in the company's namesake platform allow developers to manage application runtime configurations and automate app delivery across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and ...

We love Docker. This container technology makes it possible to run four-to-six times the number of server applications as you can with Virtual Machines (VM) on the same hardware. There are only two ...

Take on "dependency hell" with Docker containers, the lightweight and nimble cousin of VMs. Learn how Docker makes applications portable and isolated by packaging them in containers based on LXC ...