With LinuxKit, Docker has both a toolkit for creating lightweight Linux containers and a tiny Linux container for operating systems, such as macOS and Windows, which don't have built-in Linux.

Containers are finally coming into their own as a virtualization alternative, but until now their programs were incompatible. Now, the major container players are agreeing to line up behind Docker ...

Podman was designed as a near drop-in replacement for Docker. Commands like podman run, podman ps, and podman build mirror their Docker equivalents, reducing the learning curve. Developers can often ...

Docker is an open-source project based on Linux containers that is showing high rates of adoption. Docker's first release was only a couple years ago, so the technology isn't yet considered mature, ...

Docker is an open source tool to run applications inside of a Linux container, a kind of light-weight virtual machine. In addition to running, it also offers tools to distribute containerized ...

Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon.

Docker started out in 2012 as an open source project, originally named dotcloud, to build single-application Linux containers. Since then, Docker has become an immensely popular development tool ...

Container management tool Kubernetes reaches version 1.0, as parent Google joins competitors Docker, CoreOS, Joyent and others in a new Linux Foundation-brokered club. A big step towards ...

Missing authentication on the Docker Engine management API for Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac allows attackers to break ...

"A malicious container running on Docker Desktop could access the Docker Engine and launch additional containers without ...