When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed a way ...

While most of us have likely spun up a virtual machine (VM) for one reason or another, venturing into the world of containerization with software like Docker is a little trickier. While the tools ...

Over the past six months I have reviewed five minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers: Alpine Linux, CoreOS Container Linux, RancherOS, Red Hat Atomic Host, and VMware ...

Devin Rich is a systems administrator in the finance industry. He spends his time focusing on automation, security and networking. Many system administrators have heard about Docker but don’t know ...

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 ...

What makes this important, even vital, news to the larger world of system administrators, datacenter managers, and cloud architects, is that Google, Red Hat, and Parallels are now helping build the ...

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Jack Wallen shows you how to install the Docker Desktop alternative, Rancher Desktop, on both Linux and macOS. Docker Desktop is one of the more popular GUI tools for developing and managing Docker ...

Docker takes the headache out of the self-hosting process.