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Looks interesting. How is this different from Clear Container several days ago?

Hi there,

Thanks for your interest in Hyper!

We also noticed the release announcement of Clear Containers a few days ago. There are 2 main differences, the first being on the technology used, CC using RKT, while Hyper is based on Docker images. There is also a difference in term of philosophy, where Hyper aims to be a technology-neutral open source solution.

Hyper also have more features, such as running a Pod rather than one image on a hypervisor as a schedule unit.

For more details, please check our FAQ (https://hyper.sh/faq.html)

I don't feel this is correct. rkt can run docker images[1] and once the clear containers patches[2] land you will be able to run a docker image or an appc image inside of a VM under rkt.

[1] https://github.com/coreos/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/comm...

[2] https://github.com/coreos/rkt/pull/946

I think the question was specifically in the context of CC.

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