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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Jul 2013	2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Aug 2013	2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2013	2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2013	2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
Nov 2013	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2013	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2014	2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2014	2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2014	2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2014	2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2014	2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2014	2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2014	2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2014	2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2014	2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2014	2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2014	2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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jacques_chester·Jan 16, 2015

Consider looking at Warden/Garden as alternative. The main backend currently is for Linux and uses some of the same stuff as Docker. But there's a Windows backend coming too and (hand-wavey gesture here) I imagine this means it was written fairly generically. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden

In Show HN: Jetpack, a FreeBSD Jail/ZFS-based container runtime

jambay·Oct 3, 2013

yes, cloud foundry has been using warden for PaaS isolation between hosted apps for awhile. it was originally authored by redis and cloud foundry contributor pieter noorduis currently working for vmware [1]. the ongoing work has been continued by the cloud foundry team at pivotal. warden has a c server core [2] wrapping cgroups and other features currently on the lmctfy roadmap like network and file system isolation [3]. the current file system isolation uses either aufs or overlayfs depending on the distro/linux version you are using [4]. the network uses namespaces and additional features. warden also has early/experimental support for centos in addition to ubuntu, although some of the capabilities are degraded. for example, disk isolation uses a less efficient, but still workable copy file system approach. the client orchestration of w

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arden is currently written in ruby, but there was also a branch started to move that to go [5] that has not been hardened and moved into master. recently cloudfoundry started using bosh-lite [2] leveraging warden to do full dev environments using linux containers instead of separate linux hosts on many virtual machines from an IaaS provider, which has dramatically reduced the resources and time required to create, develop and use the full system. [1] https://twitter.com/pnoordhuis [2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/master/warden/sr... [3] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/blob/master/warden/RE... [4] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/blob/master/warden/RE... [5] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/go

In Lmctfy: Google's Linux application container stack

geku·Oct 3, 2013Submission

Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library

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latchkey·Oct 3, 2013

There is also warden, but it doesn't get much press. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/master/warden

In Lmctfy: Google's Linux application container stack

druiid·Jul 17, 2013

Well I can say that the closest alternative to this would be Cloud Foundry. Their Warden system is what manages the containers: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/master/warden They actually don't use LXC though and implement resource control with Cgroups. That said, Cloud Foundry is extremely difficult to get setup and running in my experience (even with the v2.0 recently released). It sounds like one big differentiating factor is that Flynn would have fewer moving pieces (Cloud Foundry is at least: BOSH, Warden, VCAP?, CF itself, etc.).