Docker on OpenStack
Why would anyone want to run Docker on OpenStack? First, OpenStack has built-in drivers for launching docker containers with the same method as VMs, using Nova. This driver has been around a long time and works very well. There's a lot to be said for having a single orchestration platform for containers, VMs, and bare metal. Even without launching the direct virtualization driver for Nova to create native Docker containers, users can simply provision VMs with images that have been stripped down and are for hosting Docker containers. There's been a lot of talk about running containers on bare metal inside OpenStack using Ironic or outside of OpenStack on these purpose-built Linux distributions. This method of deploying ...
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