Behind the acquisition of tiny Palo Alto startup SocketPlane by Docker lies the goal of giving multi-container apps network portability through standard interfaces.

Networking is just the beginning – Weaveworks looks forward to uniting with Docker and the ecosystem, to define, ship and support these APIs.

Docker now has two flavors of network management. There is native, out-of-the-box functionality supplied by Docker thanks to the SocketPlane acquisition that allows for networking across hosts.

Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of software-defined networking ...

SocketPlane, which had just gotten started on developing networking for Docker containers, has abruptly been acquired by Docker Inc.

The company is today extending its proposition to Docker and is announcing Pertino for Docker, a network stack software that extends the Pertino Cloud Network Engine to Docker.

Docker networking: Bridge networks Bridge networks let containers running on the same Docker host communicate with each other. A new instance of Docker comes with an default bridge network named ...

Docker is a hot topic this week. If you’re unfamiliar with what this technology is or what it means for your business, here’s a guide. What is it? Docker is both an open source project and the ...

Now you have a multi-host Weave network, with DNS services and remote Docker containers running as if they resided at the same host—success! Conclusion Now you know how to develop a multi-container ...

With Docker 1.5 freshly released, the creators of the software-containerization system are looking to fix its networking issues, which have long been a source of pain and criticism. The long-term ...