Five years ago, Solomon Hykes helped found a business, Docker, which sought to make containers easy to use. With the release of Docker 1.0 in June 2014, the buzz became a roar. And, over the years, it ...

If you have your ear even slightly to the ground of the software community, you’ll have heard of Docker. Having recently enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity, it continues to attract users at a ...

CHICAGO — Docker founder Solomon Hykes, opened his keynote at LinuxCon by saying he knows two things about Docker: "It uses Linux containers and the Internet won't shut up about it." He knows more ...

Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used ...

Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources, but ...

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I recently started dipping my toes into homelab/self-hosted stuff and after encountering docker in my workplace travails I got kinda excited to start playing with it at home when it came into my life ...

To put it simply, Pi-hole is an open-source DNS sinkhole —a simple, network-level ad and tracker blocker that serves as the first line of defense for your entire home network. Instead of installing ...

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 ...

Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have ...