Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

Docker networking is a fundamental aspect of container management, playing a crucial role in allowing seamless communication between containers and external networks. This comprehensive guide delves ...

Despite its young age, SocketPlane, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup focusing on Docker containers, has found a new home. Docker Inc., the company, announced its acquisition of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of software-defined networking (SDN) startup ...

Weaveworks promises to make Docker networking less brittle and difficult to manage -- something Docker might want as a standard feature With Docker 1.9 out, third parties are building on top of its ...

Linux container company Docker this week said it would acquire SDN start-up SocketPlane, a developer of a native networking stack for Docker software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

Docker Inc. rolled out Docker version 1.9 last week with a major fix that makes containers a lot more ‘network aware’ than they ever were. One of the biggest problems for Docker users was they had few ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

Learn about the use cases for each of Docker's networking models, and how to best apply and tune them for your needs A common use case for Docker is networked services, and Docker has its own ...