More than twenty organizations have come together to establish the Open Container Project (OCP), which aims to develop common standards for application containers under the guidance of the Linux ...

Red Hat, one of the early Linux pioneers and the first billion dollar open source company, is taking on another pioneering role in enterprise software by putting forth the idea of creating standards ...

The Open Container Initiative (OCI), the open-source community in charge of creating container standards, has announced the launch of the Distribution Specification project to standardize container ...

CoreOS and the Open Container Initiative on Wednesday introduced image and runtime specifications largely based on Docker’s image format technology. However, OCI’s decision to model the standard on ...

I've written about containers before, and I've waxed lyrical about the multitude of benefits they bring to DevOps and cloud computing. And, I'm not the only one to appreciate them—although there are ...

The point of software containers is to provide a level of abstraction for bits of system and application programs so they can be run anywhere and maintained easily. Having multiple software container ...

The Open Container Initiative has just launched a new project as part of its mission to create open industry standards around software container formats and rules. The group said Monday it wants to ...