An open framework to assemble specialized container systems without reinventing the wheel. Moby is an open framework created by Docker to assemble specialized container systems without reinventing the wheel. It provides a “lego set” of dozens of standard components and a framework for assembling them into custom platforms. At the core of Moby is a framework to assemble specialized container systems which provides a library of containerized components for all vital aspects of a container system, OS, container runtime, orchestration, infrastructure management, networking, storage, security, build, image distribution, etc. Tools to assemble the components into runnable artifacts for a variety of platforms and architectures: bare metal (both x86 and Arm); executables for Linux, Mac and Windows; VM images for popular cloud and virtualization providers.
Features
- A set of reference assemblies which can be used as-is, modified, or used as inspiration to create your own
- All Moby components are containers
- Creating new components is as easy as building a new OCI-compatible container
- For anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system
- For open-source developers looking to test their project in a variety of different systems
- A library of containerized components for all vital aspects of a container system