Liz Rice
Containers in the keep
Like the fortifications of a medieval castle, the multilayered practice of defense in depth can help protect your containers—no moats, drawbridges, or dragons required.
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Containers
This issue shares practical considerations and functional approaches to containerization, and examines the container ecosystem’s scope, scale, and panoramic possibilities.
Nočnica Fee
A primer on containers
On core technologies, the engineering needs they’re best suited to serve, and possibilities for the containerized future.
Tramale Turner
Leadership as migration strategy
People-centered considerations for teams discussing a container migration, and the leaders supporting them.Frederic Branczyk
Observing containers
As infrastructure scales, containers multiply, and data accrues, investing in the three pillars of observability can help you avoid information overload.Amit Saha
Best practices for container compliance
How ensuring continuous compliance through automated policy enforcement can help keep your infrastructure, and your containers, stable and secure.Nina Schiff
Containers are tents
We don’t expect tents to serve the same purpose as brick-and-mortar houses—so why do we expect containers to function like VMs?
Andrew Leonard
The container incubator
A look at the role of the Cloud Native Computing foundation in shaping containers’ ever-accelerating evolution.Brendan Burns
Ask an expert: How can developers leverage confidential computing to protect containerized data?
Microsoft’s Brendan Burns explains how this emerging technology can be applied to safeguard cloud native applications.Husayn Arrah, Stefan Kruger, and Ifeoluwa Sobogun
The process: Building on-demand staging environments at Paystack
How abstracting away Kubernetes’ complexities and building a visual interface for spinning up test environments boosted developer productivity.Glenn Fleishman
Interview: Joe Beda
The Kubernetes co-creator discusses the origins and evolution of the project, and the role the community plays in pushing it forward.
Ayden Férdeline
Toward sustainable software engineering
As companies leverage containers to improve reliability and lower costs, they’re discovering a propitious side effect: a reduced carbon footprint.
Safia Abdalla
Open-source excursions: Digging into Docker
To excavate deeper meaning and context from a project’s codebase, consider practicing open-source archeology.
Lucy Wyman
The life and times of Docker Enterprise
Tracing the diverging paths of Docker’s free, open-source product suite and its enterprise counterpart.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Containers for the future
Containers have become the lingua franca of computing infrastructure, rooted in a vibrant open-source ecosystem. The Open Containers Initiative is working to ensure it stays that way.Ipsita Agarwal
Case study: Launching an open government platform in Taiwan
By enlisting an open-source project with an innovative approach to containerization, Audrey Tang built a singular digital forum.Michael Hausenblas
How to cloud native
On leveraging open-source container technologies and open specifications in your cloud migration strategy.Increment Staff
Containers at scale
Engineering leaders at Datadog, Braze, and BetterUp discuss container tools, testing, and monitoring, and how they’ve approached container migrations.
