Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

Containers Tim Anderson -
Docker has made its catalog of hardened images - designed to run common runtimes on a secure and minimalist base - free for general...

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

Containers Tim Anderson -
Akamai, a long-established content delivery network (CDN) company, has acquired WebAssembly start-up Fermyon, with the aim of attracting more developers to its edge computing...

Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Docker has added AI agent support to its Compose command, plus a new GPU-enabled Offload service which enables compute-intensive AI workloads in ephemeral cloud...

Cloudflare container platform in public preview with scale to zero pricing, some initial limitations

Containers Tim Anderson -
Cloudflare has made its container platform publicly available in preview, allowing developers to deploy almost any kind of Linux-based containerized application as well as...

Apple’s Containerization will matter to developers – but Podman devs complain of unfixed issues

Containers Tim Anderson -
Apple has introduced VM-based Containerization at its WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference), along with Container - an open-source CLI (command-line interface) - however it has...

Docker introduces MCP Catalog and Toolkit as vendors scramble to support the protocol despite security concerns

Containers Tim Anderson -
Docker has introduced its own MCP (Model Context Protocol) catalog alongside an MCP Toolkit for managing MCP tools. The MCP Catalog is part of Docker...

Docker Bake is baked, and Desktop 4.38 previews AI agent

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Docker has made its new Bake feature generally available, and released Docker Desktop 4.38 including a preview of AI Agent, codenamed Gordon. Docker Bake simplifies...

Podman adds OCI artifact support, and Podman Desktop 1.16 lands with experimental features

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
The RedHat-sponsored Podman and Podman Desktop projects are evolving rapidly, with new and recent features including OCI (Open Container Initiative) artifact support in Podman,...

Hands on: AWS simplifies coding and debugging Lambda applications with Visual Studio Code

Containers Tim Anderson -
AWS has introduced a new "Application Builder" within its toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the idea being to simplify getting started...

Gitpod discontinues “journey of experiments, failures and dead-ends” with Kubernetes

Containers Tim Anderson -
Gitpod, which provides containerised development environments, has migrated its service away from Kubernetes in favour of a new home-grown platform called Flex, citing issues...

AWS brings Finch container development to Linux, but it’s not so easy to get started

Containers Tim Anderson -
AWS has made Finch on Linux – a project to simplify container development on multiple platforms – generally available, though we found the installation...

Docker ups subscription prices by up to 80%, bundles more services to compensate

Containers Tim Anderson -
Docker will hike subscription prices by up to 80 percent from November 15 2024, as well as introducing storage charges for its Docker Hub repository,...

Why Kubernetes? Too many issues with the supposedly simpler AWS Elastic Container Service, says Figma

Containers Tim Anderson -
Figma software engineering manager Ian VonSeggern, has described the rationale and outcome of its migration from AWS ECS (Elastic Container service) to AWS Kubernetes...

20 years since open source release, here comes Ruby on Rails 7.2 with JIT compiler and more

Containers Tim Anderson -
The Ruby on Rails team has released version 7.2, with new features including YJIT (Yet Another Just-in-Time compiler) enabled by default and auto generation...

Microsoft previews Azure Logic apps hybrid deployment and ‘long-awaited’ C# inline actions

Containers Tim Anderson -
Microsoft has enhanced its low-code workflow service, Logic Apps, with C# inline actions and the ability to deploy workloads on-premises or on other clouds,...

FrankenPHP and Caddy: Double performance, claims Caddy creator but only some apps benefit

Containers Tim Anderson -
FrankenPHP, a PHP App server written in Go and built on the Caddy web server, has the potential to double performance and halve the...

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