Among the vendors that are working on enabling OpenStack to run as a set of containers is Miranits, which is currently developing a new version of its …
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IDG Contributor Network: Elastic cloud apps are great, but how do we protect the containers that power them?
Increasingly, organizations are recognizing—and taking advantage of—the benefits of cloud-based apps.
The compute, storage and I/O cloud infrastructure is dynamic, allowing for new virtual resources to be created and made available to the application at a moment’s notice. Also, each cloud application is componentized into a number of container functional units that can be added, deleted or changed as needed.
This latter point is the buzz of our industry—containerization.
As we march into a world of dynamic containerized applications, however, we need to keep in mind that there are subtle differences between them and their static virtual machine (VM) predecessors.
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Docker containers vs. OpenStack clouds
Matt Asay has a smart piece over on InfoWorld about some ongoing struggles with OpenStack, as evidenced by Red Hat’s most recent earnings call.
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It begs the question: Are containers to blame?
Here’s Asay:
As big as the community behind OpenStack has been, [Red Hat CEO Jim] Whitehurst declared Docker the “single biggest topic that comes up among … [Red Hat’s] leading [customers].” In fact, Whitehurst noted that he hears more from customers about Docker than OpenStack.
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OpenStack Now Offers 3 Ways To Deploy Containers
OpenStack’s Magnum Project will give cloud users the ability to deploy Docker containers in virtual machines, on bare metal, or in other containers.
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