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Your definitions are not the common ones. Dropping the Linux from the full name Linux Containers doesn't make it a different fundamental. Containers, Zones and
by lloydde 10y ago
Your definitions are not the common ones. Dropping the Linux from the full name Linux Containers doesn't make it a different fundamental. Containers, Zones and Jails are all OS layer virtualisation :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtu... . The style of application packaging that came with Docker compliments OS virt but the prior art demonstrates that it is its own innovation. "Docker will do to apt what apt did to tar"
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- ianburrell 10y agoThere are Windows Server containers. Docker runs on FreeBSD using jails and Solaris using zones. Hyper runs containers on hypervisors and RancherVM on KVM. Container now has two meanings: the isolated application, and the container-based virtualization on Linux. The latter is the original usage (LXC is older than Docker). But the important innovation of Docker is combining containers with image distribution. The isolated application is more general then virtual machine so the concept is extended to other virtualization techniques.