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PouchContainer is an open-source project created by Alibaba Group to promote the container technology movement. PouchContainer is a highly reliable container engine open sourced by Alibaba. It is an excellent software layer to fill up gap between business applications and underlying infrastructure. The strong-isolation ability and rich container are its representitive features. PouchContainer is compatible with OCI image spec. Applications can minimize their storage usage with layered image structure. Incremental image distribution, saves datacenter bandwidth consumption. Significantly less runtime overhead than VM-based technologies. PouchContainer provides strong runtime isolation between applications, with cutting-edge technology both within kernel support and beyond kernel mode. PouchContainer supports standardized application image spec, so application sharing and reusing becomes trivial for developers and operators.
Features
- PouchContainer significantly improves resource utilization
- PouchContainer offers a more "application centric" approach for application development
- PouchContainer enables cross-platform and cross-OS application delivery
- PouchContainer is designed to be secure by default. Include lots of security features, like hypervisor-based container technology, lxcfs, patched Linux kernel and so on
- Besides the common ways of running container, PouchContainer includes a rich container mode, which integrates more services
- PouchContainer utilizes Dragonfly, a P2P-base distribution system, to achieve lightning-fast container image distribution
- Enables OCI-compatible runtimes to work on old kernel versions, like linux kernel 2.6.32+.
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