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.

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 ...

Do you keep tabs on your home network?

Docker’s recent advances have made it the darling of startups and innovators throughout the IT world, but one pain point causes admins and developers alike to bite their nails: networking. Managing ...

Docker, the startup that has popularized open-source technology for packaging up applications into containers, is introducing new software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities as a result of its ...

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.

Running services with LXCs is much more straightforward than trying to on bare metal ...

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If you're attempting to network containers, you'll have to use one of two plug-ins. One of them talks to libnetwork, the library developed by Docker Inc. for networking Docker containers. Networking ...

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 ...