#ContainerCon 2015 Seattle was a hit! Well over 1,000 attendee's, speakers and sponsors and more sessions than one person could experience. You definitely need to bring your team to such an event with a plan to divide to conquer!
My key takeaway? Although Docker was definitely the "theme", it is still a buzzword that is carrying the Container ecosystem rapidly forward. The "rising tide that floats all boats"! And of course, along with such disruptive "new" technology, a vortex's of confusion is created.
The interesting thing for me? All paths keep leading back to one point in history. Virtuozzo.
From the "History" pages of founders in this technology "Linux Containers is an ancient technology, going back to last century. Indeed it was 1999 when our engineers started adding bits and pieces of containers technology to Linux kernel 2.2. Well, not exactly "containers", but rather "virtual environments" at that time -- as it often happens with new technologies, the terminology was different (the term "container" was coined by Sun only five years later, in 2004)."
http://openvz.org/History
http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html
James Bottomley, CTO Odin Server Virtualization, presents Odin Virtuozzo strategy in this podcast from the OpenStack Summit 2015 event @ https://www.youtube.com/embed/iVbpPthrNO4
I CONTINUE to be impressed with Virtuozzo; Linux Containers, Virtual Machines and High Availability Storage in ONE product. Very cool.
Study the History > SWSOFT-Virtuozzo-SUN-Parallels-OpenVZ-Odin-CRIU-Docker=Containers