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The Fedora Project’s Cloud Working Groupis happy to announce the first post-Fedora 23 Atomic release. Fedora Atomic Host is optimized to run Docker containers and is on a rapid-release cycle to match the pace of Linux container technology.
Approximately every two weeks we will release the Fedora Atomic Host image in all of our supported formats (installable ISO, qcow2, Vagrant Boxes, and EC2 images), with the most up-to-date snapshot of our stack to work with Linux containers.
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated filesystem tree and new set of deployment/installation images, featuring updates to docker and atomic, among other components.
Check out the details below, and stay tuned for the next CentOS Atomic Host update, which should arrive soon after the main CentOS Project finishes building its next major release.
Earlier this week we released version 0.2.2 of Atomic App. The first update since our major refactor in 0.2.1.
The release of 0.2.1 introduced a major refactor of our code base as well as numerous new features to Atomic App. Such as:
The Docker Brno Meetup group had its second big meeting on 15 October 2015 at 6 pm at the Impact Hub in Brno, Czech Republic. This meeting followed up a monthly set of more informal gatherings in pubs around the city and the first meeting on 18 May 2015.
At LinuxCon Europe 2015 from 5-7 October, 2015 in Dublin, Ireland. Project Atomic’s Joe Brockmeier moderated a panel discussion between Tom Barlow from Docker, Sebastien Goasguen of Citrix, and Brandon Philips from CoreOS about containers.
As you may know, the technology underlying containers is not new and that a big part of the innovation provided by Docker and others is essentially an easier way to package and access this technology. However, there are key questions ahead as the technology continues to mature and transcend the it’s just packaging
idea. I didn’t transcribe the entire session, but I wanted to call out a few of the exchanges and how they affect various roles.