The CoreOS Ecosystem
CoreOS is building an increasingly sophisticated ecosystem of software tools for creating, deploying and managing apps through containers. CoreOS's containers are different from Docker containers in a technical sense, although the really important distinction between Docker and CoreOS is that the latter is shooting to offer a comprehensive and integrated ecosystem (kind of like Canonical has done for Linux by building a broad ecosystem of home-grown tools around Ubuntu). For now, Docker is focusing mainly on containers, not the tools for deploying them.
For the channel, the big reason to watch CoreOS is to see how much adoption its container platform enjoys. If it proves popular, it will signal interest in one-stop container solutions, as opposed to Docker infrastructures, which generally include parts from multiple vendors.
CoreOS is building an increasingly sophisticated ecosystem of software tools for creating, deploying and managing apps through containers. CoreOS's containers are different from Docker containers in a technical sense, although the really important distinction between Docker and CoreOS is that the latter is shooting to offer a comprehensive and integrated ecosystem (kind of like Canonical has done for Linux by building a broad ecosystem of home-grown tools around Ubuntu). For now, Docker is focusing mainly on containers, not the tools for deploying them.
For the channel, the big reason to watch CoreOS is to see how much adoption its container platform enjoys. If it proves popular, it will signal interest in one-stop container solutions, as opposed to Docker infrastructures, which generally include parts from multiple vendors.
