Cloud host DigitalOcean catches Docker fever

September 5, 2014 Off By David
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Grazed from DigitalOcean.  Author: Joab Jackson.

One of the fastest growing cloud hosting services, DigitalOcean, now offers one of the hottest virtualization technologies, Docker.  Customers now have the option to run the Docker-friendly CoreOS Linux distribution as a virtual machine on the service. Running CoreOS "is the easiest way and most affordable way for developers to start experimenting with Docker containers," said Mitch Wainer, the company’s co-founder and chief marketing officer.

Users can run a DigitalOcean virtual machine for as little as US$5 per month.  The hosted version of CoreOS also provides DigitalOcean customers with a way to rapidly set up clusters of virtual machines to work together on one large task, such as running a heavily used Web application…

"CoreOS is most appropriate for companies that want to play with this container ecosystem that is emerging, as well as the distributed systems that run these containers across a large set of servers," said Alex Polvi, CoreOS CEO…

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