If you have been wanting to play with linux containers, docker is having it's global #dockerhackday on December 3rd.
For those new to docker, it gives a git like command line interface to easily work with images, and spawn linux containers. Docker is open-source with lot of recent traction from the community. Here's a quick breakdown of the terminology: - dockerfile contain commands to run to create an image - docker images are used to create containers. - index.docker.io is a repo of dockerfiles (serving like cpan,npm,etc) - you can also have private repos to push/pull images between like git As of last weeks 0.7 release, Docker no longer requires a patched Linux kernel. This means that it will work out-of-the-box on all major distributions, including Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Gentoo,Arch, etc Here's a snippet from the 0.7 accouncement that plug users may find interesting: > > Docker makes heavy use of AUFS which is not part of the standard linux kernel > and it’s unclear when it will be merged. > This has prevented docker from being available on all Linux systems. Docker > 0.7 solves this problem by introducing a storage driver API, and shipping > with several drivers. > Currently 3 drivers are available: AUFS, VFS (which uses simple directories > and copy) and DEVICEMAPPER, developed in collaboration with Alex Larsson and > the talented team at Red Hat, which uses an advanced variation of LVM > snapshots to implement copy-on-write. > An experimental BTRFS driver is also being developed, with even more coming > soon: ZFS, Gluster, Ceph, etc. > December 3rd incidentally is also a Docker global hackday #dockerhackday There should be plenty of activity on the IRC, twitter, and blog. The agenda is: 1. Global Docker Hack Day, local editions 2. Global Docker Hack Day 3. 101 online session 4. Send your hack 5. Lightning talks - docker.io/live More at http://blog.docker.io/2013/11/docker-global-hack-day/ Bosky | @bhaskerkode _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
