containers

Articles

Safe How Kubernetes Can Help to Operationalize Your Container Security

As organizations continue to pursue their digital transformations, their IT infrastructures are expanding in both size and diversity. Many are seeing the addition of two new technologies in particular: containers and Kubernetes.

David Bisson's picture David Bisson
Kubernetes logo Using Kubernetes for Container Orchestration in DevOps

Containerization has replaced virtual machines to a great extent because containers are lightweight and make efficient use of the OS kernel. Docker’s efficient nature helps with software development, testing, delivery, and deployment in a DevOps environment, and all the benefits of Docker also apply to Kubernetes. Let’s explore some of the additional agile and DevOps benefits you can gain by using Kubernetes.

Deepak Vohra's picture Deepak Vohra
Service virtualization containers Leverage Containers to Create Simulated Test Environments on Demand

Adopting service virtualization can allow organizations to achieve more effective software development and testing by removing traditional test environment bottlenecks. Integrating service virtualization within the continuous delivery pipeline using containerization helps teams reach the level of flexibility required by today's competitive markets.

Bas Dijkstra's picture Bas Dijkstra
stacked containers Containers: A Tester's Friend or Foe?

Containers support the timely delivery of a quality software application. However, the change to a DevOps process involving containers will require testers to adapt to this new, more agile environment. What does that mean for testers and the work they do? Here's how testers can embrace these changes, containers, and DevOps.

Kevin Dunne's picture Kevin Dunne

Interviews

Ryan Kenney Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes 101: A Conversation with Ryan Kenney
Video

Ryan Kenney, senior consultant at Coveros, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the difference between containers, container engines, and container orchestration; using containers in your CI/CD pipelines; and the cost of security.

Owen Gotimer's picture Owen Gotimer
Utilizing Containers to Improve Your Production Outcomes: An Interview with Melissa Benua
Video

Melissa Benua, engineering manager at mParticle, discusses the role that containers play in test environments. She answers questions like: Why do you need containers? How is your team going to benefit from containers? What is the first step in getting started with containers? Melissa provides resources for learning how to make a container and on how containers will aid you in maintaining control over data and code.

Owen Gotimer's picture Owen Gotimer

Conference Presentations

STARCANADA 2019 Performance Testing in a Containerized World
Slideshow

Containerizing applications introduces major changes to the way we run those applications. We can now share infrastructure and resources, but this introduces the need to control the way resources are used—from a sanity perspective first and a financial objective second.

Valentin Guerlesquin
Before and After You Say ‘I Do’ to Docker
Slideshow

Docker is the most popular containerized solution being used in the software industry for development. However, implementation can get complicated, tricky, and unmaintainable if all you understand is the record-and-playback features or think it is the same as using a virtual machine. 

Aprajita Mathur

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