This is useful for us.<p>We've been using containers rather heavily in our infrastructure for a few years now (neither rocket, nor docker) and we've developed our own toolset to handle the container images, and to manage the containers.<p>Even though although it kind of deprecates a lot of our work, I really see the value in having a standard that can be used with different container runtimes, and I'll be looking at migrating our internal format to the app container specs. Having tools like this to handle migrations makes a lot of sense to me. We can continue developing our tools, without marrying a specific backend.
Shykes latest comment on that github thread has a point: <a href="https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/10776#issuecomment-74346219" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/10776#issuecomment-743...</a><p>Interesting move by CoreOS here to create what will likely be a false dichotomy for docker in the public sphere (as an indicator of their openness). If you truly believe docker is fundamentally flawed you'd be doing your users a disservice writing this. If its transitionary, create your own docker fork/binary instead of a public scene to try to force dockers hand. Lots of fragmentation to come, which sucks because the ecosystem is so important.
> At the same time as adding Docker support to Rocket, we have also opened a pull-request that enables Docker to run appc images (ACIs).<p>I really hope this lands and something constructive can come out of it. There is a lot more that can be gained by these communities working together and not promoting divisiveness.
little bit of snark: wasn't Docker "fundamentally flawed"? If that was really the premise to launch Rocket why bother with this humongous PR?<p>Don't get me wrong, I totally see how this is good for Rocket, just be honest and admit the "fundamentally flawed" argument was mainly smoke and mirrors to justify a defensive-offensive move by a VC-backed, for-profit company launched against another VC-backed, for-profit company.<p>Again nothing wrong with that, it's business and in fact a good move but in my eyes CoreOS lost quite some trust when they tried to potray Rocket as a selfless act of kindness towards the community that needed to be saved.