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.

Docker allows you to create specific networks and attach containers to them. Here's how to make use of this highly flexible feature. Docker is one of the most flexible and user-friendly container ...

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 ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is gearing up for a push to make the Container Network Interface (CNI) an industry standard. “The network overlay is essentially free,” said Aniszczyk. He ...

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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.

Cisco and Docker today announced an expanded partnership that will see further integration of container management software from Docker with infrastructure equipment. Cisco also released a 1.0 version ...

The amount of software built from and on top of Docker keeps growing. The folks behind CoreOS, the Linux distribution that uses Docker containers as a fundamental building block, have released Rudder, ...

My home server is never without a healthy stack of Docker containers, whether they're things I'm testing or ones that I decided I can't live without. The thing I like about Docker is that I'm only a ...