[Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead

[IanD]

Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead it would seem...

http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/application-containers-gain-traction-among-it-pros.html

VMS has a poor man's equivalent in LD but perhaps it could form the base of extending into something like Docker?

I know docker is one of the research areas VSI was looking at and for good reason it would seem

Anyhow, the market is speaking, or so the article suggests

Virtualisation of whole systems and the growing VM sprawl are starting to cause some companies headaches. I know where I work, the amount of systems coming under VMware for example is growing rapidly and the management headache for administering 1000's of servers is growing

Could VSI perhaps one day distribute VMS + Application 'on a stick' so to speak?

Fully self contained OS + Application, all configured and ready to run, selectable as a download via a click and pay interface and deployed on a server near you (free set of steak knives included!)

How to deploy a cluster in this type of set-up I wonder? Rolled up containers of containers perhaps? Will we need a cluster manager application sitting above it all?