If you're working in DevOps today, you know about microservices. Discrete, de-coupled, and well-defined, these simple services can be combined to tackle complex problems. They're the darling of developers who want to scale, deploy, and adapt with ease. But there are challenges with microservices. Among them: service discovery (where the microservices have to find each [...]
General Announcements: DockerCon EU 17 Registration & Call for Papers, Latest Docker Certified Containers DOCKERCON EU 17 REGISTRATION & CFP – Docker just opened early bird registration for DockerCon Europe, October 16 - 18 in Copenhagen. Docker has also issued a call for papers. They seek submissions covering "using Docker" (how is Docker used in [...]
General Interviews & Announcements: OSCON Recap, New Features for Azure Service Fabric OSCON RECAP – OSCON, the Open Source Convention, will be returning to Portland, Oregon, according to a recent OSCON Wrap-up podcast by The New Stack. The podcast features OSCON co-chair Kelsey Hightower, and also covers OSCON's plans for the future, “how open source [...]
Last month's DockerCon17 saw several exciting announcements for Docker users -- and for the container ecosystem as a whole. Besides introducing multi-stage builds (separating build-time and runtime container images to keep image size down), and a new "desktop-to-cloud" integration (a way to connect to remote swarm clusters without needing ssh access or a public key [...]
General News & Announcements NEW DOCKER CEO INTERVIEWED – On 5/2, The New Stack shared an interview with new Docker CEO, Steve Singh. Singh is the co-founder and former CEO of Concur, a company that sold to SAP in 2014 for $8.3 billion. He's taken over at Docker to "drive the next stage of growth." [...]
Docker Inc. announced a CEO change last week, in a surprising move following DockerCon 17. The new CEO, Steven Singh, was the CEO of Concur from August 1993 until last month. Singh has also been chairman of the board for Docker Inc. since October of last year. He replaces Ben Golub -- Docker's CEO since [...]
KUBERNETES “NOT A COMPETITIVE THREAT” TO DOCKER – According to The New Stack's coverage of DockerCon 2017, Docker CEO Ben Golub doesn't see Kubernetes as a competitive threat, but as an “interesting technology” that covers “but one piece of the puzzle for running a container infrastructure.” Despite elevated user and media interest in Kubernetes, Docker [...]
