The road ahead for Dockers

Up to Docker release 0.9, containers were built using LXC, which is a Linux centric technology. Docker 0.9 introduced a new driver called libcontainer alongside LXC. The libcontainer is now a growing open source, open governed, non-profit library. The libcontainer is written using Go language for creating containers using Linux kernel API without relying on any close coupled features such as user-spaces or LXC. This means a lot to companies trending towards containerization. Docker has now moved out of being a Linux centric technology, in the future we might also see Docker adapting other platforms discussed previously, such as Solaris Zones, BSD jails, and so on. Libcontainer is openly available with contributions from major tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Red Hat, VMware, and so on. Docker being at its core is responsible for developing the core runtime and container format. Public cloud vendors such as Azure and AWS support Docker on their cloud platforms as first class citizens.