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Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

That's where Docker comes into play. Regardless of which platform you plan to use, Docker containers will likely play a vital ...

Over the past six months I have reviewed five minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers: Alpine Linux, CoreOS Container Linux, RancherOS, Red Hat Atomic Host, and VMware ...

Docker, Inc., the chief commercial supporter of the open source Docker Project, has announced the beta release of Docker for both Windows and Mac this week. With this release, the Linux-based ...

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How to deploy a container to a remote Docker machine with ServerCat Your email has been sent Find out how ServerCat makes it easy to deploy a container to one or more ...

Like the various Linux server and desktop distributions, the container-oriented Linux distributions mix and match various projects and components to construct a complete container infrastructure.

The good news about containers, such as Docker's, is they make it easy to deploy applications, and you can run far more of them on a server than you can on a virtual machine. The bad news is that ...