Five years ago, Solomon Hykes helped found a business, Docker, which sought to make containers easy to use. With the release of Docker 1.0 in June 2014, the buzz became a roar. And, over the years, it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. This article is more than 10 years old. When Docker launched a year or so ago, it ...

Anyone who's kept an eye on the news out of Microsoft Ignite 2016 this week has most likely already heard a lot about containerization technology pioneer Docker. That's because Microsoft announced ...

This comprehensive guide about Docker, the leading containerization technology, covers the paradigm shift of containers vs. virtualization, as well as why Docker matters for business users. The ...

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and ...

It seems complicated, but it makes things a lot simpler.

There's only one problem with this: While Docker, the technology, is going great guns, Docker, the business, isn't doing half as well. For users, this isn't that much of a problem. Whatever Docker the ...