Collaboration aims to bring developers simpler, more secure,
lightweight, and portable environments for applications
RALEIGH, N.C. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and dotCloud, the company behind Docker, an open source
project to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight
container, today announced a technical collaboration based on
next-generation Linux Containers technology to help drive the next
evolution of OpenShift
by Red Hat, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. The
collaboration between the OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and
Docker teams aims to combine the versatile capabilities of Docker with
the security and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Gears in
OpenShift. OpenShift developers will benefit from a simpler, more
secure, lightweight, and portable environment for applications.
The OpenShift platform is built on the solid foundation of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and provides secure, scalable, Linux Container-based
multi-tenancy via Red Hat Enterprise Linux Gears. On this platform,
OpenShift offers support for various programming languages, frameworks,
Red Hat JBoss Middleware, databases, and other services, and also
enables OpenShift customers, partners, and community members to
integrate their own technology through OpenShift cartridges. These
features combine to power the OpenShift Online public PaaS and bring
OpenShift Enterprise private PaaS software to enterprise datacenters.
Docker is an open source engine that enables any application and its
dependencies to be encapsulated as a lightweight container that will run
in almost any Linux environment: bare metal, virtualized, public cloud,
or private cloud. Docker's user space library and utilities tool chain
takes advantage of both Linux Container enhancements found in the modern
Linux kernel and innovations found in the operating system such as the
file system and namespace layers. Docker uses this foundation in the
Linux kernel to provide lightweight runtime environments and offer a
simple user experience, focused on getting the maximum benefit from the
operating system in a highly portable manner.
Docker and OpenShift currently leverage the same building blocks to
implement containers, such as Linux kernel namespaces and resource
management with Control Groups (cGroups). Red Hat Enterprise Linux Gears
in OpenShift use Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) access control
policies to provide secure multi-tenancy and reduce the risk of
malicious applications or kernel exploits.
Through the collaboration, Red Hat and dotCloud are working together on
several joint community efforts, including:
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Packaging Docker for the Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored
and community-supported open source collaboration. Red Hat and
dotCloud are collaborating with members of the Fedora Project
community to package Docker for Fedora, making Docker available for
all Fedora users with upcoming releases, and also providing the
initial packaging work that will ultimately enable Docker to more
easily build and deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Collaboration on filesystem dependencies, specifically designed
to remove Docker's dependency on AuFS (Advanced Multi Layered
Unification Filesystem) to meet mission-critical requirements from
enterprise customers. Together, Red Hat and dotCloud have developed a
new approach to provisioning based on the device-mapper thin
provisioning technology included in Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
and other distributions. This approach provides the same elegant user
experience in a way that is more compatible with upstream kernel
versions.
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Collaboration on container provisioning, resulting in Red Hat's
work to enable libvirt, the open source virtualization API project, as
an option for creating containers within Docker, bringing
enterprise-grade networking capabilities along with it. This approach
will enable users to take full advantage of the robust networking
capabilities of libvirt while maintaining the user experience of
Docker provisioning.
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Collaboration on OpenShift to integrate Docker with OpenShift's
cartridge model for application orchestration. This integration will
combine the power of Docker containers with OpenShift's ability to
describe and manage multi-container applications, enabling customers
to build more sophisticated applications with enhanced portability.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud, Red Hat
"Developers want PaaS offerings that enable them to design and code
applications without losing time on technology integration and how their
application infrastructure is architected. They want applications that
are truly portable and will run wherever they want. Through our
collaboration on Docker, we're bringing innovation from the community to
OpenShift, our enterprise-class PaaS offerings, to reinforce our goal of
bringing operational efficiency and flexibility to developers."
Ben Golub, Chief Executive Officer, dotCloud
"The collaboration between dotCloud and Red Hat is an exciting
development both for Docker as well as PaaS and containerization in
general. We are thrilled by the level of hands-on contribution we've
seen from the RHEL, Fedora, and OpenShift teams at RedHat, and believe
the combination will bring unique capabilities to further accelerate
application development."
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About dotCloud
dotCloud is the commercial entity behind the open source Docker project.
Docker (http://docker.io)
is an open source engine for deploying any application as a lightweight,
portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. By
delivering on the promise "Build Once…Run Anywhere," Docker has seen
explosive growth, and its impact is being seen across devops, PaaS and
hybrid cloud environments. Five months after launching, the Docker
community is expanding rapidly: Docker has been downloaded over 90,000
times, has received over 5,500 Github stars, and is receiving
contributions from more than 150 community developers. Over 13,000
"Dockerized" applications are now available at the Docker public index.
dotCloud is venture backed by Benchmark (Peter
Fenton), Trinity
Ventures (Dan Scholnick), AME
Cloud Ventures (Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang), Y
Combinator, and SV
Angel (Ron Conway).
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