IT organizations are going to have to get used to the idea that there are multiple types of containers that are optimized for different use cases. For example, there are containers such as Docker that ...

Docker, which is based on LXC container technology, has exploded in popularity. While far from the first technology to place applications within smaller, lighter-weight "containers" instead of ...

Canonical, the firm behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the availability of LXD 4.0 LTS. It brings VM support as well as many improvements. It's available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Canonical, the ...

Ben Armstrong, Microsoft's Hyper-V and virtualization guru, will outline the company's participation in two open source projects: the Canonical-backed Linux Container LXD hypervisor project and ...

In an interview, Canonical strategic leader Dustin Kirkland has revealed that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, and Microsoft are working together on the LXD container hypervisor. LXD is an ...

Container instances. Calling docker run on an OCI image results in the allocation of system resources to create a ...