The Raspberry Pi installation you get at Resin.io uses Docker on ARM and it works great! We also cross-compile containers in the cloud. Docker for ARM standalone is now available in several Linux Distro repos, Arch Linux is one I am aware of.
What other parts would you like to see?
have used the resin.io docker images on arch on my pi. What I would love is a raspbian version as its just a super popular distro on raspi. I know its a bit of gridlock right now. It seems that its going into the jesse version of debian but the raspbian release of jesse isn't out the last time a checked (a couple weeks ago). I did try out lessbian - awesome name - on raspi and I am not recalling specifically why it didn't work out for me. I had some issue with the filesystem dependencies not being there and getting them was a pretty large undertaking (so much so that it would have been just as easy to do it on raspbian). Would love to contrib myself but right now i'm swamped and don't really have much expertise in either docker or arm. At least my experience should bring some clarity/insight into what I encountered.
Hey there. When we did Docker-on-ARM, we asked people to push their rpi-compatible containers to the Docker index with the rpi- prefix. Since then there have been many containers published, including several flavours of rpi-raspbian. There's nothing to stop you from packaging up your favourite distro and posting it on the Docker index.
totally, I think the painful part is prepping the underlying os with the filesystem dependencies as it requires modding the kernel? I could be way off though
Let's work on a proposal with an initial pov to make it happen. It won't come unless someone steps up to build it.
Look at Microsoft for Windows and HyperV, Joyent for SmartOS.
Hi Nick, I'd love to get more info on how to get this conversation started. We've been doing quite a bit with Docker on ARM for a while now, have experience with systems in production, and we're even making early research into MIPS.
That's really great. I'd love to hear more about it. I'll send you an email.