[CentOS-gsoc] Hello!

My name is Mark Murnane, I am a Computer Engineering major at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in my Junior year. I have been
working for three years now as a system administrator for our Com Sci
department, where I provide Redhat desktops and server infrastructure.

I've been working for a while now moving our legacy server environment from
Solaris zones to Linux containers(under Docker), and am extremely
interested in the project to create a yum plugin to manage containers. I am
now very familiar with the current container tools and workflows, and know
that distribution is something of a weak spot with current solutions.

I also have a few questions about the project:
The project description on the ideas page mentions that a 'yum upgrade
container' command would be unnecessary. We rely heavily on container
versioning, and generally prefer the encapsulation provided by replacing
containers wholesale. Would a solution that supports updates be undesirable?

The description only mentions Docker, but other systems for managing
containers are available. Would a solution that supports multiple systems
be allowed? I know that since version 218 systemd has supported using
docker images directly. I don't believe it would be difficult to allow
multiple systems to be configured.

Thanks!
-Mark
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