Microsoft is among the many cloud and Linux vendors supporting the first release of the open-source Docker application-deployment engine



From All About Microsoft:

Docker, the open-source engine that automates application deployment, hit the 1.0 milestone this week.
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Cloud vendors, including Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace and Google -- along with major Linux vendors like Canonical and Red Hat -- are all onboard in their support of Docker.

Docker uses containers, in lieu of virtual machines, to enable multiple applications to be run at once on the same server, as my ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explained. It's a platform for developers and systems administrators who want to configure and deploy distributed apps more easily.

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