Open-Source Docker Aims to Reinvent Virtualization With Containers | Linux Today

Open-Source Docker Aims to Reinvent Virtualization With Containers

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 2, 2013

“What I learned from Gluster is, if you want to be open-source and you want to make a difference, you have to be radically different and present a significantly newer way of doing things,” Golub said. “With Docker, what we’re really doing is taking a model of building and deploying code that has been broken for a while and replacing it with a radically simple idea to containerize code and make it possible to really build once and ship anywhere.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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