Docker Containers Rise Into The Cloud
March 5, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
The single hottest topic these days in or out of the cloud is Docker containers. As an alternative form of virtualization containers have been around on Linux platform for years. But with the advent of Docker containers it’s becoming simpler to invoke "micro-services" to create distributed computing applications that can span almost any combination of hybrid cloud computing scenarios.
As with any emerging technology, there are a host of security and management issues that still need to be addressed before Docker containers will make it into production environments. One way to address those issues is to nest Docker container images inside existing Linux containers…
According to James Bottomley, CTO for server virtualization at Parallels, that approach will enable the provider of hosting services to apply the investments it made in securing and managing Linux containers in a way that makes Docker containers suitable for more than just application development projects…
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