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March 22, 2023
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A Is for OpenStack Antelope

Thirteen years ago, developers at the NASA Ames Research Center and Rackspace, independently came up with the idea for an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Today, we call that cloud OpenStack. Now, after releasing Austin to Zed,…Read More

March 20, 2023
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A Decade of Docker

Today, billions of containers on clouds run the applications we use every day. And, while container technology dates back to 2000 with FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones, Docker, the open-source platform designed to simplify the creation, deployment,…Read More