Docker : An Interview With Solomon Hykes

Ah OK, now I get it. It's what you would want from a VM (isolation &#38; reuse) without all the data duplication of the VM image files, and the memory requirements associated with provisioning and running many VMs.<p>The copy-on-write aspect is very neat.

Does Docker work in the same way as Solaris/Illumos zones, or FreeBSD Jails (or Verio's equivalent [1])? Docker appears to add portability, but no security.<p>I ask as virtualising this way (thinking about secure shared hosting) is of interest to me, vs multiple VMs, and I'm curious about the advantages and disadvantages of each.<p>[1] <a href="http://support.verio.com/files/pdf/FreeBSD_VPS_v3_Technical_Overview-ED3.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://support.verio.com/files/pdf/FreeBSD_VPS_v3_Technical_...</a>

I'm not entirely clear on this yet, but it sounds like it could be very useful for load-testing a particular service I'm working on. Testing the service requires a series of directories to be present for each client. It sounds like this docker+busybox combination could be used for this.