The heat is on! It is not just Docker, Linux, and Microsoft in the race anymore, with enterprises witnessing the benefits of containerization and the pace at which adaptability is growing more companies have started putting in effort to the build new products or services around containers. A few of them are listed in the following sections.

Windows Containers, which we have learned so far run on a kernel modified to adapt containers, Turbo allows you to package applications and their dependencies into lightweight, isolated virtual environments called containers. Containers can then be run on any Windows machine that has Turbo installed. This makes it extremely easy to adapt for Windows.

Turbo is built on top of Spoon VMs. Spoon is an application virtualization engine that provides lightweight namespace isolation of the Windows Core OS features such as filesystem, registry, process, network, and threading. These containers are portable, which means no client is required to run. Turbo can containerize from simple desktop applications to complex server objects such as Microsoft SQL Server. Turbo VMs are extremely light and also possess streaming capabilities. Teams can share Spoon VMs using a shared repository called Turbo Hub.

Docker is no longer the only container available on Linux. CoreOS developed a new container technology called Rocket, which is quite different from Docker in architecture. Rocket does not have a daemon process; Rocket containers (called App Containers) are created as child processes to the host process, which are then used to launch the container. Each running container has a unique identity. Docker images are also convertible to App Container Image (a naming convention used for Rocket images). Rocket runs on a container runtime called App Container Runtime.