baseimage-docker is meant to make it easier to make a correct environment for the processes you run in it, so perhaps make it be more like a fast VM. From what

baseimage-docker is meant to make it easier to make a correct environment for the processes you run in it, so perhaps make it be more like a fast VM. From what we've seen the CoreOS people and perhaps the Docker people as well like to see Docker more as a thin layer around processes, being managed by external services.