Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon.

In front of a crowd at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, Microsoft showed off a new Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016. The move would break down a fundamental wall in ...

Azure Linux is Microsoft’s commercial distribution of CBL-Mariner, an open-source Linux distribution, created by Microsoft, and now generally available as a container host OS for AKS.

I decided to do something out of the ordinary. My goal was to run a full-fledged Linux desktop inside a container. I don't want just a shell; I want a fully functional GUI that exists where it's ...

Rancher Labs releases the 1.0 milestone of its purpose-built Linux operating system, designed to help secure and enable container application deployment.

Chrome developers are working on project Crostini to bring containers for running Linux VMs on Chrome OS.

It's not enough to use containers, vendors argue that you need a specialized Linux distribution to back it.

A VMware-built Linux OS variant is optimized for containers such as Docker, part of a VMware effort to bring DevOps into the data center.

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

Joe Brockmeier, a senior evangelist at Red Hat, explains the benefits of containers on Linux, how they work and how to prepare to use them.

AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts. Bottlerocket, as the new OS is called, is basically a stripped-down ...