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.

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

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 ...

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.

If you're attempting to network containers, you'll have to use one of two plug-ins. One of them talks to libnetwork, the library developed by Docker Inc. for networking Docker containers. Networking ...

Docker, the startup that has popularized open-source technology for packaging up applications into containers, is introducing new software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities as a result of its ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

Docker Inc. has acquired yet another member of its burgeoning technology ecosystem, a networking specialist called SocketPlane Inc., in a bid to make large container clusters easier to operate. The ...

Container instances. Calling docker run on an OCI image results in the allocation of system resources to create a ...

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 ...