Containers

Continue to consider virtual machine advantages when evaluating options such as serverless and containers.

With Azure Arc, any server, even if it's running behind a firewall or proxy, becomes just another resource as far as Azure is concerned. This could make Azure a compelling option for multi-cloud deployments.

One of the fathers of Kubernetes says enterprise customers see the most benefit from the community-driven approach because their users get the opportunity to influence the direction development takes.

In addition to Knative, which is for deploying serverless workloads, Google evidently plans to keep the Kubernetes service mesh, Istio, in-house.

VMware faces competition from Docker, and even stiffer competition from Red Hat, as it goes for the brass ring in the crowded container market. If VMware pulls ahead in the cloud marketplace, it may actually be because it has remained true to its...

Project Pacific is part of a growing trend toward specialized environments for running containers, and it's poised to solve a big problem in the VMware user community: easing the inevitable transition to Kubernetes as a container management tool.

The company is rearchitecting vSphere into a Kubernetes-native platform, “a smooth onramp into the future.”