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RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers
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Re: RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers
#22It's not quite an OS for Docker containers yet. It's a distro with special middleware. The next question is how much can be thrown out of the Linux kernel. Or can it be replaced with something more secure? What would it take to run this in Xen without Linux?
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#23Curious if anyone has come up with a way to run X11 itself in a container? (there are numerous articles on running GUI apps in containers that simply need a way to talk to Xauthority or X socket, or using VNC or xpra). I'd imagine it would need to run privileged with access to device files, or something like that. I've kicked around the idea of a "workstation" set of containers to run on top of CoreOS, but this is th…
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Re: RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers
#24It's not quite an OS for Docker containers yet. It's a distro with special middleware. The next question is how much can be thrown out of the Linux kernel. Or can it be replaced with something more secure? What would it take to run this in Xen without Linux?
I think running linux containers without linux would be difficult! You probably want Mirage OS or OSv.
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#25Cant be surprised that Darren is the creator. I remember seeing him at a talk this summer and I imagined he would be the kinda guy to put this type of project together.
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#26Makes me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huevos_rancheros
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#27Docker-ception
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#28Regarding the "Ideal for Production" tagline - how would I go about running this in production? Specifically on linode - would I have to run a "regular" linux and then use kvm to run the rancheros iso?
Re: RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers
#29Regarding the "Ideal for Production" tagline - how would I go about running this in production? Specifically on linode - would I have to run a "regular" linux and then use kvm to run the rancheros iso?
I don't think you can install and run arbitrary stuff on Linode, so you'd have to convince Linode to provide an OS image for RancherOS.
(Or goof around copying stuff onto a disk image.)
Re: RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers
#30It's not quite an OS for Docker containers yet. It's a distro with special middleware. The next question is how much can be thrown out of the Linux kernel. Or can it be replaced with something more secure? What would it take to run this in Xen without Linux?
Docker is a user interface and policy wrapper around core Linux features. It's not, in itself, a virtualisation or container system. So... not likely!
(But you can use Docker as a user interface / API to non-Linux container implementations -- see all the stuff the Joyent folk are doing.)