Docker 0.11 is the Release Candidate for 1.0

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66 points·mwcampbell··5 comments

So I just started playing with docker today at lunch and have to say I am super impressed with it. I'm excited to play around with it and learn more. I am planning on using it help manage many versions and configurations of a certain daemon to test my application against. Do Dockerfiles has any sense of inheritance? I am trying to think of the easiest and most maintainable way to set this up. Should I create a base image of a working install for each version I want to test with and then have a Dockerfile to make the configurations changes for each test case? It seems like I would get into the place where I would have a Dockerfile for a test case and then I'd have to make copies of it for each version and change the "from" line.

Looks good, particularly the support for host networking; this will be a boon (I think) for those of us using Docker to run lightweight VM style containers which we wish to have directly accessible on the network by other machines/devices, and resolved via an existing router's DHCP/DNS.

There's additional discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712070

Sadly, no more mentions of earlier promised BSD Jails support for Docker 1.0.

The focus for 1.0 is to offer the APIs necessary to customize Docker in every way you need - including custom sandboxing backends (like for example BSD Jails).

There is now an execution driver API (which was indeed planned for 1.0), and now it's a matter of the community contributing and maintaining a BSD jails driver that works :) There are several efforts underway, but we (the core developers) can't contribute and maintain every driver possible, it would be too much work.

If you're interested in participating come say hi on #docker-dev on Freenode, we can help you get started :)

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