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.

If you are running more than two Docker containers and you are still typing :8080 or :9000 at the end of your IP addresses, ...

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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 ...

Docker Desktop features a simplified security context that masks many errors and failures behind the veil of a VM. Even though logs exist, diagnosing issues is difficult, and most problems are solved ...

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

Docker Inc. has acquired yet another member of its burgeoning technology ecosystem, a networking specialist called SocketPlane Inc., in a bid to make large container clusters easier to operate. The ...