The Open Container Project is a lightweight, open governance structure, to be formed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtime.
A lot of this is beyond my knowledge base. I couldn't even begin to attempt to explain what is going on here. It does sound pretty important and awesome.
If someone with knowledge about what this is all about would care to explain what this is please do.
That is good news, I see containers as something will slowly catch on in most large companies as the benefits of visualisation with the ease of rapid code deployments merge.
If you are not sure what a container is - it's a little like virtualisation, except it isn't :-)
The code gets to run within it's own ecosystem whilst running on a host machine the whole time, one of the main advantages is that you can stack containers and deploy them as code. Let's say you have a base requirement for all your applications - you could create a base container that meets that requirement, then each application (and application version) can build their own containers. You can now quickly deploy new applications as containers without worrying about preparing the base install first (as its already there) and when it comes to releasing a new cut of the code you just push an updated container still relying on the original base. You can then manage all these through source control, if you combine this with visualisation (either private or public cloud) you are well on the way to implementing infrastructure as code - which is really cool :-)
Up until recently one of the main criticisms of containers is that all the code still runs on the hosts kernel and some see that as a security risk. Microsoft & Docker now have a solution to that and each container can have its own kernel. That being the case I can think of a lot of scenario's where this will be a preferable solution over running and maintaining just virtual machines.