Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

Docker networking is a fundamental aspect of container management, playing a crucial role in allowing seamless communication between containers and external networks. This comprehensive guide delves ...

Despite its young age, SocketPlane, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup focusing on Docker containers, has found a new home. Docker Inc., the company, announced its acquisition of ...

Docker Inc. rolled out Docker version 1.9 last week with a major fix that makes containers a lot more ‘network aware’ than they ever were. One of the biggest problems for Docker users was they had few ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

Weaveworks promises to make Docker networking less brittle and difficult to manage -- something Docker might want as a standard feature With Docker 1.9 out, third parties are building on top of its ...

Docker’s three orchestration tools, Docker Machine, Docker Compose and Docker Swarm, all have new individual feature enhancements. Across the board, the biggest area of incremental functionality is ...

Learn about the use cases for each of Docker's networking models, and how to best apply and tune them for your needs A common use case for Docker is networked services, and Docker has its own ...