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CoreOS Announces Competitor To Docker

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you-want-something-done-right dept.

New submitter fourbadgers writes: CoreOS, the start-up making the CoreOS Linux distribution, has announced Rocket, a container management system that's an alternative to Docker. CoreOS is derived from Chrome OS and has a focus on lightweight virtualization based on Linux containers. The project has been a long-time supporter of Docker, but saw the need for a simpler container system after what was seen as scope-creep in what Docker provides.

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  1. It is not about scope... by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is not about scope, or features, or development. It is all about who has the most things to install. Unless it runs Docker apps, (Which will be hard if it does not keep up with the feature creep) it is already starting way behind.

    1. Re: It is not about scope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As someone that has used Linux vserver for over 10 years and is currently running lxc containers for our business, I would say that Docker is a very confusing project to put into practice. We decided that we could do a better job and have more control over the deployment and operations of our applications.

      We evaluated coreos and decided against it because it used Docker.

      I think this is a good moved from coreos and makes complete sense if you had to use this stuff for anything in the real world.