Anybody see this announcement between MS and Docker?

[David Schwartz]

This looks interesting:

https://blog.docker.com/2014/10/docker-microsoft-partner-distributed-applications/

Not so much for the MS part, but the general concept that has been evolving within the Linux environment.

I’m not sure I totally understand it, tho.

I attended an Amazon “Big Data” presentation in Tempe a few weeks ago, and it was interesting to see how they’ve done something similar (if I’m getting the idea correctly) in the way they now allow you to provision and stand-up any number of nodes using HADOOP. They can be running many Linux variants as well as several Windows platforms, not to mention a bunch of databses. But I don’t think they’re “containerized” — just VMs that are allocated as-needed.

Thoughts?

-David