The first half of this chapter will cover how open standards encourage a diverse ecosystem of container implementations. We'll look at the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and its mission to provide an open container specification as well. The second half of this chapter will cover CoreOS and its advantages as a host OS, including performance and support for various container implementations. Also, we'll take a brief look at the Tectonic enterprise offering from CoreOS.
This chapter will discuss the following topics:
- Why standards matter?
- The Open Container Initiative and Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Container specifications versus implementations
- CoreOS and its advantages
- Tectonic