Google and Others Eye New Alternative to Docker, Cloud Computing’s Next Big Thing
December 1, 2014
Grazed from Wired. Author: Cade Metz.
Docker is the hottest new idea in the world of cloud computing, a technology embraced by Silicon Valley’s elite engineers and backed the industry’s biggest names, including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Based on technologies that have long powered Google’s own online empire, it promises to overhaul software development across the net, providing a simpler and more efficient means of building and operating websites and other massive online applications.
But some of Docker’s earliest supporters now believe that the company behind the technology, also called Docker, has strayed from its original mission, and they’re exploring a new project that aims to rebuild this kind of technology from scratch. On Monday, a San Francisco startup called CoreOS unveiled an open source software project called Rocket, billing it as a Docker alternative that’s closer to what Docker was originally designed to be…
“The original premise of Docker was that it was a tool that you would use to build a system,” says Alex Polvi, the CEO and co-founder of CoreOS, a company that has been one of Docker’s biggest supporters since the technology was first released early last year. “We think that still needs to exist…so we’re doing something about it.”…
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