The road ahead for Dockers
Up to Docker release 0.9, containers were built using LXC, which is a Linux centric technology. Docker 0.9 introduced a new driver called libcontainer alongside LXC. The libcontainer is now a growing open source, open governed, non-profit library. The libcontainer is written using Go language for creating containers using Linux kernel API without relying on any close coupled features such as user-spaces or LXC. This means a lot to companies trending towards containerization. Docker has now moved out of being a Linux centric technology, in the future we might also see Docker adapting other platforms discussed previously, such as Solaris Zones, BSD jails, and so on. Libcontainer is openly available with contributions ...
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