App Container spec gains new support as a community-led effort [LWN.net]

App Container spec gains new support as a community-led effort

Posted May 6, 2015 5:17 UTC (Wed) by alison (subscriber, #63752)
Parent article: App Container spec gains new support as a community-led effort

CoreOS is inspiring both from the technical and political points of view.

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App Container spec gains new support as a community-led effort

Posted May 6, 2015 10:29 UTC (Wed) by xnox (subscriber, #63320) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, time will tell how well proposed changes could be accepted. E.g. if it works out as good as, or better than Python's PEPs then things indeed will be wonderful.

App Container spec gains new support as a community-led effort

Posted May 6, 2015 14:46 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

This is also in direct competition to Docker and is a result of CoreOS and Docker competing for customers, each is building a partner ecosystem and incompatible file formats are a way to defend your revenue. I don't see this spec as technology so much as business strategy.