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I am right in thinking that Docker can virtualize any environment, as long as that environment is Linux, right? Because I have an office plugin I need to test a

I am right in thinking that Docker can virtualize any environment, as long as that environment is Linux, right? Because I have an office plugin I need to test against various different version of office and content management repository and so on and it feels like this would be ideal. Possibly I'm reaching here - but I thought I'd ask anyway, I don't know much about Docker.

nickstinemates 12y ago
The Microsoft Azure team is talking at DockeCon tomorrow. It's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of our collaboration together. More to come. I'm extremely optimistic.
bentcorner 12y ago
I don't have any experience with Docker either, but from the little I've read it's built on top of Linux Containers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Containers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Containers). Windows has App-V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Application_Virtualization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Application_Virtualiz...) which seems like a similar technology (I believe Office 365 uses this). Note that Office plug-ins are specifically called out as something that is problematic with this tech.
euske 12y ago
There's no single mention of Linux in http://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ http://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ page. Yet it looks like it's currently (almost) Linux-only framework and it's highly dependent on the OS specific feature. Comparison with VMs seems a bit unfair to me, because it would sound that Docker can emulate any architecture too. They even said ``"Dockerized” apps are completely portable and can run anywhere - colleagues’ OS X and Windows laptops.'' which adds confusion, because it sounds like it's a cross platform format, which apparently isn't. I don't deny this is immensely useful software for people using the clouds, but the way it's advertising is a bit misleading to me.

nickstinemates 12y ago

The Microsoft Azure team is talking at DockeCon tomorrow. It's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of our collaboration together. More to come. I'm extremely optimistic.

bentcorner 12y ago

I don't have any experience with Docker either, but from the little I've read it's built on top of Linux Containers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Containers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Containers). Windows has App-V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Application_Virtualization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Application_Virtualiz...) which seems like a similar technology (I believe Office 365 uses this). Note that Office plug-ins are specifically called out as something that is problematic with this tech.

euske 12y ago

There's no single mention of Linux in http://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ http://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ page. Yet it looks like it's currently (almost) Linux-only framework and it's highly dependent on the OS specific feature. Comparison with VMs seems a bit unfair to me, because it would sound that Docker can emulate any architecture too. They even said ``"Dockerized” apps are completely portable and can run anywhere - colleagues’ OS X and Windows laptops.'' which adds confusion, because it sounds like it's a cross platform format, which apparently isn't. I don't deny this is immensely useful software for people using the clouds, but the way it's advertising is a bit misleading to me.