Technologies like h/w rooted Trusted Boot and Trusted Pools have been mainstream. These assure that VMs/workloads are launching on servers with demonstrated boot time integrity. However, for Docker containers, following security questions remain open: can Docker platform be trusted, can Docker images be trusted? This presentation introduces Intel’s work to enable the transparent and trusted… Continue reading Trusted Docker Containers and VMs
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Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer
One of the great Container advances in 2014 was the advent of Docker. However, many people still don’t realise that Docker itself is really a Container application i.e. a consumer of containers technology rather than a provider of it (the containers currently used by Docker are provided by the Linux Kernel). This confusion comes about… Continue reading Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer
VMware Introduces Open Source Projects for Cloud-Native Applications
VMware, Inc. today announced two new open source projects built to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications — Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project that will extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications; and Project Photon, a lightweight Linux operating system optimized for cloud-native applications. Designed to help enterprise developers securely build, deploy… Continue reading VMware Introduces Open Source Projects for Cloud-Native Applications