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The Open Container Initiative (OCI) has started work on open container Image Format spec. The OCI's hope is to create a format that will “enable users to package and sign their application, then run it in any container runtime environment of their choice”. Combined with the group's Runtime Spec, the goal is to end up with a …

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  1. DrStrangeLug

    Er,dont we have one?

    Docker's open source, doesnt that make it's container format an open format ?

    Or is somebody confusing the words 'open' and 'interopable' ?

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    1. Mellipop
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      Re: Er,dont we have one?

      Some cloud providers apparently 're-compile' the docker image to fit their APIs. So it's not really possible to run up microservices on demand.

      It's a form of lock-in that the signed image format may prevent.

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  2. CrazyOldCatMan Silver badge

    Nobody likes lock-in

    Apart from the vendors of course. They *love* lock-in..

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