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authorSam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk>2015-07-03 16:29:57 +0100
committerSam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk>2015-07-03 16:29:57 +0100
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README: Add notes on runC and Warden container runtimes
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@@ -39,11 +39,15 @@ Current backends
Possible future backends
========================
+- runC_
- `Security Enhanced Linux`_ (SELinux): see https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
- systemd-nspawn_
+- Warden_
+.. _runC: http://runc.io/
.. _Security Enhanced Linux: http://selinuxproject.org/page/Main_Page
.. _systemd-nspawn: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nspawn.html
+.. _Warden: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden
Relationship to other projects
==============================
@@ -178,6 +182,17 @@ of writing.
.. _Docker: https://www.docker.io/
+Open Container Specification
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The `Open Container Specification <http://www.opencontainers.org/>`_ is an
+effort to standardise containers. It was started more recently than the `App
+Container spec`_ and may not may not supercede it.
+
+runC_ is a runtime for these containers. It is based on code from Docker.
+
+.. _runC: http://runc.io/
+
schroot
~~~~~~~
@@ -188,6 +203,16 @@ use it directly without any abstraction layer.
.. _schroot: https://launchpad.net/schroot
+Warden
+~~~~~~
+
+Warden_ is another Linux container runtime, developed by the `Cloud Foundry
+project <http://cloudfoundry.org/index.html>`_. It has a client/server
+architecture allowing multiple implementations of sandboxing to be mixed.
+Currently it has two backends: 'linux' and 'insecure'.
+
+.. _Warden: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden
+
Python-specific Sandboxing
--------------------------