OpenSourceForU published a rundown of “Linux containers,” which in this context means the container platforms that are available to run with Linux as the underlying OS. It’s a good overview that demonstrates there are other platforms available for running containers, and includes some of the solutions higher up the stack (e.g. Red Hat’s OpenShift, which supports multiple underlying runtimes with Kubernetes performing orchestration). This is a good follow up the headline from BizTech Magazine in our March 10th, 2023 newsletter, which goes over the concept of containers.
Docker vs. Kubernetes: Container Basics
Linux Journal ran a piece introducing a key aspect of containers: container management/runtime (in this case, via Docker) versus the coordination of containers to provide services. The latter is often realized through a solution called Kubernetes (abbreviated K8s).
