Red Hat accelerates application delivery with Linux container innovations

RED HAT SUMMIT 2014 DUBAI, UAE: Red Hat Inc. announced several new Linux Container innovations in support of the company's vision for streamlined application delivery and orchestration across bare metal systems, virtual machines and private and public clouds via containers and Docker technology. These innovations include:

Project Atomic - a new community project to develop technologies for creating lightweight Linux Container hosts, based on next-generation capabilities in the Linux ecosystem. The tools that result from Project Atomic will allow creation of a new variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host-which Red Hat plans to debut with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

GearD - a new OpenShift Origin community project to enable rapid application development, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment of application code to containerized application environments.

High-Touch Beta Program - an expansion of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 high-touch beta program to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host and Docker container technologies that will enable select customers to evaluate these new container technologies in enterprise environments.

Linux Containers and Docker have quickly emerged as key open source application packaging and delivery technologies, combining lightweight application isolation with the flexibility of an image-based deployment method.