Container orchestration

When containers start to significantly populate your software environment, orchestration becomes critical. This section looks at the tools, like Kubernetes, that help put container provisioning and container management tasks on track and methods that help them to work in tandem with your applications and each other.

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Container orchestration News

July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19
Pivotal tools aim to ease Kubernetes complexity for developers

Pivotal has released several tools to help developers and operators address Kubernetes complexity, as enterprises increasingly adopt the popular container orchestration system.
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Microsoft engineer explains his love for hallways at Container World

As part of our coverage of Container World in Santa Clara, Calif., we spoke with a presenter from Microsoft about what he expects from this year's conference.
January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17
Popularity of application containers begins to shadow DevOps, PaaS

The application container market is growing at an astounding pace, mimicking its rapidly rising popularity in the enterprise. What are the drivers and implications of that trend?
October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15
Arun Gupta talks JavaOne, microservices and container technologies

Arun Gupta of Couchbase talks about JavaOne 2015, microservices, container technologies and the relationship between long distance running and development.

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Container orchestration Get Started

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To succeed with containerized applications, nail the details

Containers can help an organization smoothly deploy applications, but the design aspects are complicated. Follow best practices to size and package app components. Continue Reading
Follow this AWS Fargate tutorial to deploy a containerized app

New to containers on AWS? Learn how to navigate the Amazon ECS Management Console to configure the proper container orchestration in this simple AWS Fargate example. Continue Reading
Understand how to migrate a VM application to container deployment

As container deployment has become more efficient, users are looking to take their VM application to the container level. Expert Tom Nolle discusses how to make this transition. Continue Reading

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Evaluate Container orchestration Vendors & Products

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

Choose the right container deployment and management system

Containers improve a company's cloud and data center operations, but implementation isn't easy. Here's how to plan a container deployment strategy and choose the right platform. Continue Reading
Compare 10 leading container management systems

Ready to select a vendor or open source tool to build and manage your container-based infrastructure? This roundup lays out the benefits and complexities of the many options. Continue Reading
Evaluate container deployment tools based on these criteria

A company's plans to maintain traditional data centers, move to the public cloud or adopt microservices all play a major role in its container hosting and management decisions. Continue Reading

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Manage Container orchestration

Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.

Container image size makes a difference

IT teams ready to embark on container deployment should look closely at how developers break down and package application components. Little details will be important. Continue Reading
Managed Kubernetes doesn't mean set it and forget it

Don't let the name fool you: Cloud-based managed Kubernetes services still require user management. Here's what IT teams still need to know when deploying on AKS, EKS and GKE. Continue Reading
Capital One's use cases for implementing microservices

Learn how Capital One has implemented microservices to improve DevOps teams and how containerization played a role. Senior Director of Technology Irakli Nadareishvili explains. Continue Reading

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Problem Solve Container orchestration Issues

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The pros and cons of container platforms for portability

Container platforms enable high degrees of portability, but there are some container portability limitations related to persistent storage, different container formats and more. Continue Reading
Creating a cloud model with governance, services architecture in mind

Organizations considering a move to cloud-centric applications should think about their cloud model, not applications architecture. Continue Reading

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