Of all the news that's come out this week around app containerization system Docker's 1.0 release, the details abut what's inside Docker may be most crucial.
A key project at the heart of Docker, libcontainer, is becoming a collaborative effort that could make containers even more useful than they are now with Docker -- and it could transform Docker into far more than a Linux-centric technology.
Here are four big reasons why libcontainer might be an even bigger deal than Docker itself in the long run.
1. It's a standard, or as close to one as we're going to get right now Libcontainer provides a standard interface to making sandboxes or containers inside an OS. With it, a container can interface in a predictable way with the host OS's resources, security, and behavioral controls, and the app inside it can be controlled as expected.
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