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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. 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.