Containers represent the next generation of virtualization technology for cloud environments. They can best be described as a self-contained unit of software—including application code plus its ...

Shipping containers are so robust, modular and inexpensive that they quickly became very popular for all kinds of inventive applications. Containers provide flexibility and a toughness that more tradi ...

Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit ...