Container Portability: Part 1
A Brief History in Code Portability Do you know why you can take a Python program and run it on any computer that has a Python interpreter on it? Well, because the computer industry has made a huge...
View ArticleContainer Portability: Part 2
Code Portability Today In Container Portability: Part 1: A Brief History in Code Portability, we explored the genesis of code portability and visited structured computer organization to highlight the...
View ArticleThe Open Containers Initiative: Software Containers vs. Shipping Containers
Like in the physical world of shipping containers, the OCI container image and runtime formats are critical because they allow for infrastructure and investment to happen among a bunch competing and...
View ArticleContainer Portability: Part 3
The Paths Forward In Container Portability: Part2: Code Portability Today, we discussed how there are no regression tests, there is no complete interface standard, there is definitely pain ahead if we...
View ArticleHow to Buy a Used Linux Container
How do you buy a used Linux container? A quick search of “how to buy a shipping container” will turn up a wealth of information, especially how to evaluate used ones. While all analogies are imperfect,...
View ArticleRootless Podman on PowerPC (That’s a Mouthful)
Background I was thinking about naming this article the POWER of Podman, or Podman on Power or Power Man or…but I digress. Confession, it’s been a long time since I played with a POWER system. The last...
View ArticleEngineering Compatibility with The Red Hat Universal Base Image
The Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) has an end user license agreement which allows partners, customers and community members to deploy it anywhere, but it takes a lot more than a license to create a...
View ArticleThe Limits of Compatibility and Supportability with Containers
Many folks who do container development have run Alpine container images. You might have run Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu images as well. If you are adventurous,...
View ArticleArchitecting Containers Part 1: Why Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space...
Perhaps you’ve been charged with developing a container-based application infrastructure? If so, you most likely understand the value that containers can provide to your developers, architects, and...
View ArticleDeeply Understanding the Different Between Portability, Compatibility, and...
Let’s dig into these three concepts a bit deeper: Portability Since the OCI standard governs the images specification, a container image can be created with Podman, pushed to almost any container...
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