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Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

rjmarvin writes "Docker 0.7 was released today, with 7 major new features including support to run on all Linux distributions. No longer capable solely on running on Debian and Ubuntu Linux, Docker 0.7 adds support for distributions such as Red Hat, SUSE, Gentoo and Arch. From the announcement: 'A key feature of Docker is the ability to create many copies of the same base filesystem almost instantly. Under the hood Docker makes heavy use of AUFS by Junjiro R. Okajima as a copy-on-write storage mechanism. AUFS is an amazing piece of software and at this point it’s safe to say that it has safely copied billions of containers over the last few years, a great many of them in critical production environments. Unfortunately, AUFS is not part of the standard linux kernel and it’s unclear when it will be merged. This has prevented docker from being available on all Linux systems. Docker 0.7 solves this problem by introducing a storage driver API, and shipping with several drivers. Currently 3 drivers are available: AUFS, VFS (which uses simple directories and copy) and DEVICEMAPPER, developed in collaboration with Alex Larsson and the talented team at Red Hat, which uses an advanced variation of LVM snapshots to implement copy-on-write. An experimental BTRFS driver is also being developed, with even more coming soon: ZFS, Gluster, Ceph, etc. When the docker daemon is started it will automatically select a suitable driver depending on its capabilities.'"

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  1. Awesome! by mythosaz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...now what the fuck is a docker?

    1. Re:Awesome! by spike+hay · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's customary to put a brief explanation of what the fuck the article is about in the summary.

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    2. Re:Awesome! by kjs3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      As far as I can tell it's a chroot jail with different limitations. FTFY

    3. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      You're a real fucking dipshit aren't you.

    4. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      You're assuming he didn't mod you as -1, dumbarse.

  2. relevant Onion article by spike+hay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    here

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  3. Re:Years coming. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Looking at the comments posted here already

    Most of the cool kids left here long ago. This story? Lucky if it gets 100 posts, and if it does 75 will be "wtf is it?" Today we have angry libtards standing by to spend all their mod points on the next global warming story.