Cloud Computing: Red Hat buys into Docker containers with Atomic Host
March 6, 2015
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Not much over a year ago, few people knew about containers, and fewer still knew about Docker. Since then, the idea of building server and applications out of container-based micro-servers, has exploded in popularity. Red Hat has been watching this and now with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host (RHELAH) the company has its own operating system/container pairing to offer the business world.
RHELAB is a purpose-built container host for secure and reliable containerized applications across the open-hybrid cloud. It provides all of the components you’ll need to easily package and run applications written for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7 as containers…
Red Hat isn’t the first Linux company to merge its flagship operating system with containers. CoreOS first took this approach in mid-2014. Canonical followed late in 2014 with Ubuntu Core. While Canonical is trying to use this approach to cover everything from the data center and cloud to the Internet of Things, Red Hat, like CoreOS, is focused on the server and cloud side.er the business world…
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