For some time, Lennart Poettering et al. has been working on improved infrastructure for... actually I don't know what to call it. It's not just containers and isolation and statelessness but also distribution and upgrades.<p>What's interesting here is that he's working on standard stuff, i.e. things that end up inside the various Linux distributions.<p>Perhaps we are going to see a future where the distributions, due to improved default tooling (and tonnes of integration blood and sweat), out of the box end up being where Docker wants to be today?<p>Things like Project Atomic are already a thing. But I suspect we might see a landslide once the whole Linux landscape moves in this direction, instead of just a few projects on the fringes.