Google Backs Alternative To Docker, Cloud Computing’s Next Big Thing
May 4, 2015
Grazed from Wired. Author: Cade Metz.
FOR MANY, DOCKER is the next big thing in cloud computing. But some big names—most notably Google—are now backing an alternative to this enormously-influential technology. In December, one of Docker’s earliest supporters, the Silicon Valley startup CoreOS, unveiled an open source project called Rocket.
CoreOS founder and CEO Alex Polvi felt that Docker had strayed from its original mission, and with Rocket, he and his colleagues hoped to bring that mission back to the fore. Five months later, Google has put its considerable weight behind this effort, officially joining the Rocket open source project and rolling the technology into one of its cloud computing tools…
Polvi is set to announce Google’s involvement this morning at an event in San Francisco, and in an email to WIRED, Google has confirmed its involvement…
Read more from the source @ http://www.wired.com/2015/05/google-backs-alternative-docker-cloud-computing-s-next-big-idea/