Operating systems, software & hardware
Elasticsearch is a Lucene-based search engine developed by the open-source vendor, elastic. With principal features like scalability, resiliency, and top-notch performance, it has overtaken Apache Solr, one of its closest competitors. Nowadays, Elasti ...
Last month, we talked about the pros and cons of some of the different ways to handle containers in OpenStack, including native tools, Murano applications, and Magnum-based operations. Before we get too deep into how to create different types of appl ...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to dockerize a Ruby on Rails application. The application we're going to build will make use of PostgreSQL, Redis and Sidekiq. We'll also be using Unicorn in both development and production. If you would prefer to u ...
Editor: Parse is a hosted, mobile app development platform that can also be self-hosted. It's owned by Facebook. The hosted service will shutdown effective January 28, 2017. This article shows how to run your own Parse server on Docker using the Kontena c ...
Editor: This article was originally published by Omer Dawelbeit under the title "Learn the Kubernetes Key Concepts in 10 Minutes". In this post I will provide a brief explanation of the key concepts of Kubernetes. I will avoid using lengthy definitions ...
Today’s vulnerabilities - Heartbleed, Shellshock, Poodle - have a brand. When vulnerabilities have a brand and your favorite companies are making front page news for getting hacked, you know enterprise security is due for a change. Although our everyd ...
With the increased attention of containerization and microservices, Docker is an obvious choice for development and perhaps production. How can an Infrastructure team leverage shared machine resources and build something self-service for their awesome ...
As a growing startup that provides a SaaS platform to automate B2B sales lead management and social selling at scale, ProLeads has been pressed to deliver more valuable features while we cut our server hosting costs. Our top two priorities have been ( ...
Java developers and DevOps professionals have long struggled to automate the deployment of enterprise Java applications. The complex nature of these applications usually meant that application dependencies and external integrations had to be re-config ...
Clair is a vulnerability analysis tool for containers that was just released by CoreOS. CoreOS is the same outfit that's behind the development of the rkt container runtime, as well as CoreOS Linux, a container-native operating system. Clair is an o ...
Swarm is native clustering for Docker. Swarm allows production deployment and management of multi-host, multi-container distributed applications at scale. But what you may not know is that Swarm works well with other cluster managers, such as Kubernete ...
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates extensive and powerful management of LXC containers. It’s great for dense deployments, development en ...
Today, we’re excited to share some of the work we’ve done to reliably deploy Jenkins masters using Mesosphere’s Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) and Marathon. Up until this point, Jenkins has been usable on Apache Mesos, but deploying it on the DCOS was ...
Containerization brings several benefits to traditional CI platforms where builds share hosts: build dependencies can be isolated, applications can be tested against multiple environments (testing a Java app against multiple versions of JVM), on-demand bu ...
Editor: Docker 1.9 was released yesterday November 3 2015. This is a link to the official release announcement. The big news is that Swarm, the container clustering component, is now production-ready. And multi-host networking is now supported. But ...
