Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

Docker networking is a fundamental aspect of container management, playing a crucial role in allowing seamless communication between containers and external networks. This comprehensive guide delves ...

Weaveworks promises to make Docker networking less brittle and difficult to manage -- something Docker might want as a standard feature With Docker 1.9 out, third parties are building on top of its ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

Running services with LXCs is much more straightforward than trying to on bare metal ...

Docker’s three orchestration tools, Docker Machine, Docker Compose and Docker Swarm, all have new individual feature enhancements. Across the board, the biggest area of incremental functionality is ...

Learn about the use cases for each of Docker's networking models, and how to best apply and tune them for your needs A common use case for Docker is networked services, and Docker has its own ...

Cisco and Docker today announced an expanded partnership that will see further integration of container management software from Docker with infrastructure equipment. Cisco also released a 1.0 version ...

Despite its young age, SocketPlane, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup focusing on Docker containers, has found a new home. Docker Inc., the company, announced its acquisition of ...

Docker, the startup that has popularized open-source technology for packaging up applications into containers, is introducing new software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities as a result of its ...