Today Dimitri John Ledkov of Intel’s Linux team announced the availability of Clear Containers for Docker Engine for multiple OSes. This enables executing existing Docker applications in the secure and fast Clear Containers environment. The experimental source code is based on the Docker 1.8.1 upstream release. The primary host platform is Clear Linux Project for Intel Architecture, version 4000 or better, and binaries for multiple OSes, including: CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu.
The Clear Linux Project for Intel Architecture is a distribution built for various cloud use cases in order to showcase the best of Intel Architecture technology, from low-level kernel features to complex applications that span across the entire OS stack. We’re putting emphasis on power and performance optimizations throughout the operating system as a whole. Clear Containers leverage the isolation of virtual-machine technology along with the deployment benefits of containers. The security of containers is improved by using Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT). The optimization of key components results in slimmer, simpler, safer and substantially speedier virtualization.
For more information, see the full announcement on the archives of the dev list.
https://lists.clearlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
http://clearlinux.org/
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aclearlinux%3Apreview&package=clear-containers-docker
https://clearlinux.org/features/clear-containers
https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/
https://github.com/clearlinux/docker
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