From 065eca9d4e4dd145b070786e4b497512bd659b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Solomon Hykes Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:09:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Docker: the Linux container runtime --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d162759ed8..4293a7c04a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Docker is a process manager with superpowers -============================================ +Docker: the Linux container runtime +=================================== -It encapsulates heterogeneous payloads in Standard Containers, and runs them on any server with strong guarantees of isolation and repeatability. +Docker complements LXC with a high-level API with operates at the process level. It runs unix processes with strong guarantees of isolation and repeatability across servers. Is is a great building block for automating distributed systems: large-scale web deployments, database clusters, continuous deployment systems, private PaaS, service-oriented architectures, etc.