Cloud Computing: CenturyLink Offering Aims To Help Docker Management

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Dan Heilman.

Following nine months of development, CenturyLink this week announced the open-source availability of its Docker management platform, Panamax. The platform is designed to ease the development and deployment of any application sitting within a Docker environment.

CenturyLink touted the release as being ideal for even complex Docker architectures, offering developers a single management platform by which to create, share and deploy Docker-containerized applications. Docker automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, providing a layer of abstraction and automation of OS-level virtualization on machines running Linux…

Because it makes containers portable and sharable, Docker lets developers more easily collaborate on infrastructure, according to CenturyLink, preventing configuration problems when work is uploaded from a developer?s computer to a Web server…

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