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.

If you are running more than two Docker containers and you are still typing :8080 or :9000 at the end of your IP addresses, ...

Cybersecurity is an ever-growing concern in today's world, and one of the big potential attack vectors is your own network.

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

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 ...

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This is the third article in a series on Docker. Previously, I walked you through installing a Docker container and downloading/starting images to create one or more run instances of the images.

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 ...

The amount of software built from and on top of Docker keeps growing. The folks behind CoreOS, the Linux distribution that uses Docker containers as a fundamental building block, have released Rudder, ...