Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

Cybersecurity is an ever-growing concern in today's world, and one of the big potential attack vectors is your own network.

If you are running more than two Docker containers and you are still typing :8080 or :9000 at the end of your IP addresses, ...

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

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Docker is an important tool for developers and for running apps across networks, and it has many uses for the pro and hobbyist alike. Here's how you can get started using the containerization tech on ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

Docker is both an open source project and the name of a startup that focuses on Linux Containers. Containers are the idea of running multiple applications on a single host. It’s similar to compute ...

This is the third article in a series on Docker. Previously, I walked you through installing a Docker container and downloading/starting images to create one or more run instances of the images.