Docker, which is based on LXC container technology, has exploded in popularity. While far from the first technology to place applications within smaller, lighter-weight "containers" instead of ...

A few weeks ago, I switched from Docker to Podman, as the latter provides some extra features for my containerization needs. That said, Docker is still a neat container runtime despite all its faults, ...

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

Linux Containers (LXC) are a lightweight virtualization technology that allows you to run multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single host. Unlike traditional virtual machines, containers ...

The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. That is the thinking of Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux project more than a decade ago and head of ...

Joe Brockmeier, a senior evangelist at Red Hat, explains the benefits of containers on Linux, how they work and how to prepare to use them. One of the most exciting things to happen in the Linux world ...

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