Monday, May 08, 2017

containers: Docker Moby Project, LinuxKit

Microsoft Cloud Show - Office 365, GCP, AWS and DockerCon News + Client Side Dev with Mark Rackley

DockerCon 2017 - YouTube

Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement - Docker Blog
"The Moby Project is a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement and help the ecosystem take containers mainstream. It provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems and a place for all container enthusiasts to experiment and exchange ideas."Moby Project

Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems - Docker Blog
"LinuxKit includes the tooling to allow building custom Linux subsystems that only include exactly the components the runtime platform requires. All system services are containers that can be replaced, and everything that is not required can be removed. All components can be substituted with ones that match specific needs. It is a kit, very much in the Docker philosophy of batteries included but swappable. Today, onstage at Dockercon 2017 we opensourced LinuxKit at https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit."




Since Windows already supports some Linux APIs (Windows Subsystem for Linux), it is possible that it will be extended to be able to run "native" Linux containers on Windows. And if essential Windows APIs are included in "Linux subsystem for Windows (Wine)" some Windows containers may be able to run on Linux containers!

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