Linux containers is a generic term for an implementation of operating system-level virtualization for the Linux operating system. Currently, a number of such implementations exist, and they are all based on the virtualization, isolation, and resource management mechanisms provided by the Linux kernel, notably Linux namespaces and cgroups.
Common container technologies include:
This week the OpenShift Commons Briefing held a very informative webinar focusing on the plans for CoreOS. If you are currently running containers – OpenShift or otherwise – then you’ll be especially interested in the video at the end of this post. Red Hat acquired CoreOS earlier this year. Project Atomic and CoreOS Container Linux […]
Red Hat Openshift recently announced a Technology Preview program for Istio on Red Hat OpenShift. This preview works with Red Hat OpenShift Platform 3.10. Istio on @openshift is now available as a Technology Preview. https://t.co/iVKgFtxNcR — Unix Sys Admin (@UnixSysAdmin) October 1, 2018 This annoucement was very timely given the recent release of Istio 1.0 […]
I was fortunate to attend Red Hat Summit earlier this year and managed to attend one of the sessions run by Dan Walsh of Red Hat. In the following talk he gives an overview of the evolution of containers and introduces some of the great work that the Open Container Initiative has brought us in […]
Linux Journal recently posted a great article titled The Search for a GUI Docker which covered a number of different graphical tools you can use to manage Linux containers. The article does a nice job of showing the capabilities of each of the tools, links to which can be found below: https://kitematic.com/ https://dockstation.io/ https://portainer.io/ https://github.com/lirantal/dockly […]