The Moby Project

One of the announcements made at DockerCon 2017 was the Moby Project. When this project was announced, I had a few questions about what the project was from work colleagues, because on the face of it, Docker had appeared to have released another container system.

I answered with the following:

The Moby Project is the open source framework created by Docker (the company) that allows it, and anyone else who wishes to contribute to the project, to assemble container systems “without having to reinvent the wheel”.

Think of the framework as a set of building blocks made up of dozens of components that allow you assemble your own custom container platform. The Moby project is used to create the open source community edition of Docker and the commercially supported Docker Enterprise edition.

For anyone who asks for an example of a similar project that combines a bleeding-edge version, a stable open source release, and an enterprise supported version...