Comment by philips

6 months ago

Shoutout to Michael Crosby, the person in this video, who was instrumental in getting Open Containers (https://opencontainers.org) to v1.0. He was a steady and calm force through a very rocky process.

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discohead  6 months ago

"A new report from Protocol today details that Apple has gone on a cloud computing hiring spree over the last few months... Michael Crosby, one of a handful of ex-Docker engineers to join Apple this year. Michael is who we can thank for containers as they exist today. He was the powerhouse engineer behind all of it, said a former colleague who asked to remain anonymous."

https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/11/apple-cloud-computing/

  • musicale  6 months ago

    We can thank the linux kernel developers for implementing namespaces and overlayfs.

    And we can thank predecessor systems like BSD jails, Solaris zones, as well as Virtuozzo/openVZ and lxc as previous container systems on linux.

    Docker's main improvements over lxc, as I understand it, were adding a layered, immutable image format (vs. repurposing existing VM image formats) and a "free" public image repository.

    But the userspace implementation isn't exactly rocket science, which is why we periodically see HN posts of tiny systems that can run docker images.