The hype around containers
Viktor Farcic: Speaking of technology, all the hype over the last couple of years has been about containers. How do you see that fitting into this whole picture?
Kohsuke Kawaguchi: When I worked at Sun Microsystems, we had our own operating system there called Solaris. I remember an internal conference where they talked about this thing called Solaris Zones. They would say, "Oh, we can split the user space into different portions, and we can allocate different CPU sizes, RAM, and so on to them. They will be like a different set of computers with virtually zero overhead." So now, looking back, I can see that what they were doing was actually putting in place the building blocks of what became containers.
The Solaris guys must have designed this feature, fully aware of the impact it can create. But it had zero traction. There were a number of other similar examples. The thing that I took away from Solaris is that we, as open source engineers, often tend to...