back to article Docker and chums unveil standards org for software containers

Docker has joined forces with the Linux Foundation to create a new organization that will oversee and manage open standards for application containers. Announced at the DockerCon conference in San Francisco on Monday, the Open Container Project (OCP) will maintain and develop a common container runtime and image format based …

  1. W. Anderson

    inclusion of FreeBSd and Solaris containerization?

    Will this standards organization include container technology standards from FreeBSD with it's "Jails" containerization technology and Solaris with it's "Containers" technology? Or is this Standards body restricted to Linux based containerization?

    While many Linux, and especially Windows background technologists are ignorant or dismissive of non-Linux technologies, the FReeBSD Jails containerization in specific, is popular and widespread amoung the many major networking corporations - Fujitsu and Juniper Networks for example, as well as in numerous university and NGO institutions using *BSD based networking and containerization technology.

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