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What on Earth is a Flocker? It's a piece of open source software that lets you run databases, key-value stores and queues inside Docker containers, and comes from ClusterHQ. Any wiser? Docker is an open-source Linux container technology that runs multiple apps under a single OS inside a containing structure instead of each …

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  1. Pete 2 Silver badge

    The SUN never sets

    > multiple apps under a single OS inside a containing structure

    Isn't this what Solaris had about 10 years ago? Containers or zones (I forget - it's been a while)

    > Snarky old IT folks might sarcastically recall multi-tasking under one OS and sniff in sorrow

    Yup, pass the snifters. I'll have an Armagnac.

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      Re: The SUN never sets

      Containers or zones (I forget - it's been a while)

      Engineering called them zones, marketing decided to officially call them containers. Customers ignored marketing & used the short name :)

      The original zones shared a kernel with the physical host. The latest release of Solaris from a week or too now allows independent kernels in each zone: Kernel Zones.

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    Zenoss annouced a docker orchestration layer that does data volumes last week

    Looks like a lot of solutions are comming out. Zenoss just annouced a container orchestration platform also: http://controlcenter.io && https://github.com/control-center/serviced

    It provides data volumes, log monitoring, performance monitoring and high availability

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  3. MyffyW Silver badge
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    Appreciate seeing the dots joined...

    Thanks @Chris_Mellor, useful article.

    Coming from a Windows background (yes, I blush, but it paid the mortgage) I can't help but draw parallels with ThinApp and AppV, which have proven useful in certain circumstances. I guess the differences between distros on Linux makes containerisation all the more appealing, and the potential use cases broader.

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  4. https://twitter.com/duncanjw

    Coverage from Edinburgh Docker Meetup

    Readers might be interested in videos from our first Edinburgh Docker Meetup where industry analyst Paul Miller (http://cloudofdata.com/about/) gave an excellent intro to Docker which was followed by talks on Apache Brooklyn (http://brooklyn.incubator.apache.org/) and two Docker ecosystem Apache licensed projects Clocker (http://clocker.io) and of course Flocker.

    See http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com/blog/2014/07/docker-edinburgh-meetup-july/ for videos of talks.

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