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"The time for Dockers and containers isn't quite today, but it's very close." Hmmm ... tell that to AirBnb (http://nerds.airbnb.com/future-app-deployment/ http
by danesparza 11y ago
"The time for Dockers and containers isn't quite today, but it's very close."
Hmmm ... tell that to AirBnb (http://nerds.airbnb.com/future-app-deployment/ http://nerds.airbnb.com/future-app-deployment/), New Relic (https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/12/docker-centurion/ https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/12/docker-centurion/ ) and Spotify (https://blog.docker.com/2014/06/dockercon-video-docket-at-spotify-by-rohan-singh/ https://blog.docker.com/2014/06/dockercon-video-docket-at-sp...)
It is a young technology, but moving quickly. Just 10 years ago, YouTube wasn't owned by Google yet and we didn't have the first iPhone.
Hell, 17 years ago VMware (arguably the king in the virtual machine software market) was founded. If it was a kid, it wouldn't have graduated from high school yet!
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- vezzy-fnord 11y agoCan we please stop sounding the trumpet of "progress"? Containers have been around for nearly a couple of decades (possibly more if you extend the definition), since IBM i had LPARs. There's nothing fast-moving or technologically novel about, especially, Linux containers.
- fatherlinnux 11y agoYeah, but the layered images and copy on write nature of Docker has not and IMHO, that is what is novel about this new wave of containers.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoUnion mounts? Those are at least 25 years old.
- fatherlinnux 11y agoJust add registry server, that's where the magic is.
- icedchai 11y agoIf I remember correctly from my AIX days (a while back, admittedly), LPARs are more like VMs than containers. Though you are still correct... virtualization goes back decades!
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoI don't understand how "Companies are using containers." suddenly translates to containers being ready for prime time.