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CoreOS - a 2013 San Francisco startup backed by Google Ventures and $20 million in funding - is offering an alternative to the wildly popular Docker application container runtime that is sweeping the market.
Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, says the company has developed a more security-conscious way to run application containers compared to Docker, which they call rkt. CoreOS released the 1.0 general availability open source release of rkt on Thursday.
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