How Docker Is Helping to Save The World (Literally) | Linux Today

How Docker Is Helping to Save The World (Literally)

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 14, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO — While there are many different things that individuals might consider to be a life threatening event and then there are extinction level events, for example an asteroid hitting Earth.

While the idea of an asteroid hitting Earth and ending all life is the stuff of Hollywood movie like Armageddon, it’s an actual, though remote possibility that NASA is investigating, with the help of Docker containers.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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