Google LLC today announced that virtual machine support in Anthos is now generally available, allowing customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform.

What exactly is a container and what makes it different -- and in some cases better -- than a virtual machine? To answer this question, Joey explains why we ever needed containers in the first place.

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I will show that it's possible to install, configure, and use this Linux distribution with absolutely no command-line access. Read now Chromebook users may soon have a simpler way to run their ...

I have treated Docker Desktop as the unavoidable default. If you needed containers on macOS or Windows, that was the tool.

Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of development and testing, and this ...

Due for release in the second half of 2016, Windows Server 2016 is a major reworking of the Windows Server platform, with a refactored core that will scale from the minimalist, microservice- and cloud ...

Containers have helped revolutionize computing, particularly in the cloud, over the last decade. By reducing the overhead ...

For its 18th code release, issued today, the OpenStack community is making the software easier to deploy on bare metal. The release, named “Rocky,” takes advantage of the way physical servers are ...