Docker, CoreOS, and the entire ecosystem are moving really fast, it is a bit hard for me as a developer to keep up. For some projects we are creating containers with Docker and will need to get some things into production as soon as Docker 1.0 is declared stable.<p>At the same time I want to switch to CoreOS, I also want to wait just a little while for blogs, tutorials, and tools to catch up to where CoreOS and Docker are at, and be usable in production by people who are not professional devops.<p>The most exciting thing for me in this post is CoreOS CloudInit. It seems to be one of those tools that a small shop could use. It looks a bit like the yaml for fig, but is something that could be used in production as well. At the moment, I have been trying to solve everything a bit on my own with Makefiles, which include Makefiles for custom variables and Makefiles for commands that can be run against each container. It is working great for dev, but I could never really see how to run the containers in prod. The Makefiles didn't really seem like a prod solution, but CoreOS CloudInit looks like it could work.<p>We also skipped boot2docker and use vagrant with ssh, so seeing that there is a Vagrant box which will run just like an EC2 box is pretty exciting. I would be excited if Digital Ocean would start supporting CoreOS too.<p>[edit] Quite a few people would like CoreOS on Digital Ocean - <a href="http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/4250154-suport-coreos-as-a-deployment-platform" rel="nofollow">http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...</a>