Cloud Computing: Google Brings Container Engine to Market

Grazed from CIOToday. Author: Jeff Cozza.

After nine months in preview, Google has finally rolled out a commercial release of its container management service. Called the Google Container Engine, the new service aims to provide enterprise clients with the ability to run their most complex workloads in the cloud.  Containers are a new type of virtualization technology that aim to streamline the process of running workloads in the cloud by allowing multiple isolated user-space instances.

Each instance, or container, appears to have all the characteristics of a normal server from the perspective of the end users. The technique provides better security and helps limit the impact of one container’s activities on other containers. Many applications take advantage of multiple containers. A Web application, for example, might have separate containers for its Web server, cache, and database…

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