[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/10/2020 9:39 AM, Chris wrote:
> On 03/09/20 01:01, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Many are now switching to containers instead of traditional VM's.
>>
>> Containers will be next step for VMS like in 11.0 or 12.0
>> as it will require significant changes to the OS (even though
>> VMS actually already have some of the basic building blocks).
> 
> Define containers ?. Sounds like Solaris zones or freeBSD jails,
> but serving up application code rather than data ?...

Seen from an OS perspective then I believe it
is pretty close to FreeBSD jails.

But with the tooling created for it (Kubernetes,
OpenShift etc.) and how it is used in development
and operations, then it has turned into
something quite different.

Arne