Toward a Standard Interface for Cloud Providers: The Container as the Narrow Waist
Silvery D. Fu, Jiangchuan Liu, Xiaowen Chu, Yueming Hu · IEEE Internet Computing · 2016
Containers underwent a whirlwind adoption across cloud providers recently, as the Open Container Initiative works toward standardizing the container format and configuration. The container could become the cloud infrastructure's "narrow waist," bridging a proliferation of existing and emerging cloud services.