The Future of Cloud Computing Now Runs on All Versions of Linux

Grazed from Wired. Author: Klint Finley.

Docker wants to help developers run their applications anywhere and everywhere. This week, the project got a little closer to that goal by bringing the platform to all major versions of the Linux operating system. Docker is a tool for bundling everything you need to run a particular application into a single “container.”

These containers can be moved from computer to computer — be they physical machines or virtual computer servers — in much the same way a standardized shipping container can be loaded onto any ship or train or loading dock. Each container runs in isolation of all the other containers on a computer…

The idea is to make each application completely portable, eliminating the need to install and configure it on every system on which you run it. It’s not a new idea, but Docker has popularized the approach and has even spawned an operating system designed specifically to work with it called CoreOS…

Read more from the source @ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/docker-linux/