Docker: open source portability project (Linux world)

[juvera]

An interesting initiative for anyone interested in portability:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/application- ... ion-238918

[Midas]

An interesting initiative for anyone interested in portability:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/application- ... ion-238918

• Cool. But for once, seems like Linux is rather late to the party...

[SYSTEM]

Wow. I didn't expect enterprises to be at all interested in portability.

[Midas]

After all this time, I'm still in the dark here. Is anyone able to provide practical details for this?

[webfork]

After all this time, I'm still in the dark here. Is anyone able to provide practical details for this?

As I understand it, this is an effort by a wide variety of companies to get everyone on the same page about cloud storage/computing. The problem is that most companies don't want to move to the cloud because they are worried about getting stuck with one company. Docker-compatibility means you can leave your current provider and easily go elsewhere.

It's portable in the sense that you can run docker programs on many separate systems.

The other hope is that this will resolve a lot of the security concerns with cloud computing. It's one of the ongoing reasons customers still seek "on premise" solutions, which are not as robust or scalabale.

[shnbwmn]

Seemingly related ...

Snappy: http://snapcraft.io/
On Ubuntu site: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)

Snaps are universal Linux packages

How do snaps work?

A snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its dependencies, and a description of how
it should safely be run on your system, especially the different ways it should talk to other software.

Most importantly snaps are designed to be secure, sandboxed, containerised applications isolated from the
underlying system and from other applications. Snaps allow the safe installation of apps from any vendor
on mission critical devices and desktops.

[webfork]

A snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its dependencies, and a description of how
it should safely be run on your system, especially the different ways it should talk to other software.

That's great. I wonder if there's a way to package a copy of WINE into all that so you could run a Windows programs from here on the site entirely inside a Snap.