Solomon Hykes Leaves Docker In the biggest story of this past week, Solomon Hykes -- Docker founder and former CTO -- has announced his departure from Docker, Inc. He will remain a major shareholder and active board member, but will be helping Docker find a new CTO to replace him. Kubernetes 1.10 Release Kubernetes reached [...]
Solomon Hykes, the founder and former CTO of Docker, Inc., today announced his departure from the company. According to his Docker blog post, Hykes is leaving to make room for a CTO with more experience, "shipping and supporting software for the largest companies in the world." Hykes calls the departure "bittersweet," but emphasizes how "incredibly [...]
Our partner Lenovo is offering a “DevOps with OpenShift Solution,” as part of their larger portfolio around DevOps. This is an enterprise-grade solution, with “purpose-built” modular hardware and a container-based software platform (to better enable end-to-end software delivery). According to Lenovo’s Joel Artzt, the company’s Data Center team has been speaking to “many customers seeking [...]
Best Practices for Docker Security In a recent study by the CNCF, 43% of respondents listed "security" as the biggest obstacle to container adoption. With that in mind, The New Stack has shared "five Docker security best practices." The article covers patching the host OS, Docker runtime security, image authenticity, resource utilization / noisy neighbor [...]
Hear ye, hear ye. InfoSiftr is looking for a Linux sys admin / sys engineer to join our Las Vegas team. Here are the requirements: Linux systems experience Some Docker experience An understanding of Docker under the hood (preferred) Good customer service demeanor -- able to handle criticism and respond to requests politely This is [...]
Docker is celebrating its fifth birthday this month with over 100 community events nationwide. This has been an incredible growth story. Since its release as an open source project in March 2013, Docker has been adopted to the tune of 37 billion container downloads, 3.5 million Dockerized apps, and over 450 consumers of the Docker [...]
Ex-Docker CEO Now Leading Storj Labs Our friend Ben Golub (the former Docker, Inc. CEO) has taken the helm at Storj Labs, a cloud storage provider based on blockchain. According to eWeek, Golub wants Storj to become "the Airbnb of the storage industry with a crowdsourced model for distributed storage." The model allows individual users to [...]
Docker Turning 5 -- Meteoric Growth Continues Docker is turning five this month. A recent Docker blog post celebrating that fact explores some numbers and case studies around Docker usage. According to the post, Docker EE (Docker's commercially-supported "Enterprise Edition") has over 450 customers. Meanwhile the Docker project has over 200 active user groups and [...]
GitHub Hit with Major DDoS Attack This past week, GitHub was hit by the “largest DDoS attack that has been publicly reported to date.” The attack peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second and was part of an ongoing trend of memcached amplification attacks. GitHub moved their traffic to Akamai four minutes after the attack began, [...]
