Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Containers are all the rage in the software development and DevOps worlds. They increase hardware utilization efficiency, improve infrastructure performance and help with software testing. Docker has ...

Sometimes, you only need one container, because all you need is one instance of an app. But sometimes you need cluster of containers that can respond to changes in demand, and that can be upgraded ...

Docker, the open source container technology that makes it simple to wrap up apps in a fraction of the size, has released a toolkit to make it easier for new users to get started on Windows and Mac.

Have you ever spent hours setting up a development environment, only to find that your application behaves differently on another machine? Or perhaps you’ve wrestled with dependency conflicts that ...

Everyone talks about self-hosted and getting started with Docker. But there's one key aspect of self-hosting that a lot of users miss out on — properly backing up their containers. Let's just say, I ...

Docker radically changed the IT world as it was the product that popularized container technology. Containers, unlike virtual machines (VMs), do not virtualize an entire operating system (OS); instead ...

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Last December, Docker previewed its plans to launch a comprehensive set of orchestration tools for its container platform and, starting today, developers will be able to download and use all of these ...