I've been using RancherOS for a few weeks now and I'm quite delighted with it. A confusion that occurred at first for me was the distinction between Rancher (t

I've been using RancherOS for a few weeks now and I'm quite delighted with it. A confusion that occurred at first for me was the distinction between Rancher (the project/company), Rancher (the application) which can be used for installation and distribution, and RancherOS, which is the concept of replacing the Init process with Docker. Docker is used in separate instances - one to manage the containers that make the OS, and one for the remaining containers that make your apps. I think the advent of Docker Swarm probably put a crimp on development and use of Rancher (the app). To me the way forward is Docker's own clustering tools, and the ease of standing up a cluster of Atom processors at www.packet.net where they install (as an option) RancherOS is very attractive.