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Credit: Victoire Joncheray modified by IDG Comm. Docker containers are used to provide a lightweight and more portable alternative to virtual machines. Unlike virtual machines, which must bundle a ...

Here's how to run a "real-world" application (consisting of an MVC application and a Web Service) in a networked set of Docker containers. And it's just a couple of mouse clicks in Visual Studio to ...

Ever since I started exploring the self-hosted landscape, I've deployed hundreds of containers on Docker. After all, it's one of the simplest ways to host apps on your local server. It's also helpful ...

On the heels of Docker 1.0 being released, Docker has announced the launch of cloud-based platform services for distributed applications, including container image distribution and change management, ...

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is planning to create its own public container image registry in response to Docker Inc.’s decision to impose pull rate limits on Docker Hub. The public cloud infrastructure ...

It's surprisingly easy to deploy microservices in the AWS cloud. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) can pull images from Docker Hub and manage container workload with low-cost AWS Fargate clusters.