As I understood CoreOS (and SmartOS and their ilk) the benefit is to run it on bare metal and then spin up VMs or docker images or zones to do your actual computing. What, then, is the benefit of a VM with CoreOS?<p>I suppose you could run a collection of containers inside a container, but at some point you're going to run out of benefits.<p>CoreOS seems great, I just thought it was more useful as the OS on your dedicated box, not your VPS.
I must be missing something, but it seems like CoreOS is just etcd and vanilla docker. I do like the idea of etcd, but is there some sort of API to control docker with it?
Been meaning to play with CoreOS as a next step on from just using docker. Hadn't yet gotten around to it, this will make giving it a test run so much easier when I get to it. Awesomesauce.