IT Innovators: OCP Aims To Create Common Standards For Software Containers
It’s almost the end of June, a time when summer is in full swing and things should be slowing down, news included. That’s not the case this year; however. A prime case in point is the announcement made at DockerCon this week that industry leaders like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, CoreOS, Docker, and others are joining forces to create an organization known as Open Container Project (OCP). OCP’s charter is to establish common standards for software containers. To get the ball rolling, Docker—the original author and primary sponsor of the Docker open source project—will donate existing code for its software container image format and its runtime, along with all associated specifications. The technology donation will serve as the foundation on which the new open standards will be based. OCP hopes to publish a draft specification in the very near future. What makes this announcement so intriguing is that it brings together companies that are competitors, and that begs the question: Why would they want to work together? Clearly, the fact that container technology, with its ability to enable application portability, is so hot these days might have something to do with it. According to Docker, just in the past year [...] The post IT Innovators: OCP Aims To Create Common Standards For Software Containers appeared first on Premium Laptop UK. http://dlvr.it/BKhXJ3