Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

In recent months, the rise of containers as a lighter-weight alternative to virtual machines has emerged as a major challenger to VMware, the dominant provider of virtual machines inside the ...

As Microsoft moves to embrace containers to provide virtual machine (VM) and application portability, the company is among numerous players that have aligned with Docker Inc. to enable cross-platform ...

Portland-based software-automation firm Puppet today announced tighter integrations with virtualization firm VMware and container powerhouse Docker. The announcements came in conjunction with ...

Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a ...

Creation of an on-site private cloud for agile software development and IT operations, or DevOps, is one of the primary enterprise use cases for open source technology. Going beyond the hypervisor and ...

Puppet is forging tight links between its devops platform and Docker containers, Jenkins continuous integration, and VMware virtual machines. These improvements are part of a series of product ...