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, ...

Many new IT administrators don't know that Microsoft Azure supports container services out of the box. As a result, admins often create VMs on which to run containers. But this is inefficient, because ...

Microsoft has lately been pushing container development big-time for its Azure cloud. The company has published much new documentation for using containers in the past week or so across many different ...

We've had waves of container technology: FreeBSD jails, Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, cgroups/process containers, LXC and Docker. The common theme is these process isolation options grow among the Linux ...