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 ...

State and local governments’ IT departments increasingly rely on DevOps practices and agile development methodologies to improve service delivery and to help maintain a culture of constant ...

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...

Microsoft isn’t only a Windows company. It now shepherds several Linux distributions alongside its own operating systems. It’s important to remember that these aren’t general-purpose Linuxes like ...

Everyone's heard the term, but what exactly are containers? The software enabling this technology comes in many forms, with Docker as the most popular. The recent rise in popularity of container ...

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

With so much news at 2025's Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, you might be excused for missing that Apple quietly revealed it was releasing and open-sourcing a new open-source containerization ...

Windows 10: Containers are the future, and here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent With two use cases for its containers, and five different container models, it would seem that ...

Microsoft on Wednesday described how its next major release of Windows Server 2016 will have improvements for running containers. The next major release of Windows Server 2016, version 1709, is ...