Menu Home Products Using CoreOS Documentation Blog December 1, 2014 · By Alex Polvi Rocket is a new container runtime, designed for composability, security, and speed. Today we are releasing a prototype version on GitHub to begin gathering feedback from our community and explain why we are building Rocket. When we started building CoreOS, we looked at all the various components available to us, re-using the best tools, and building the ones that did not exist. We believe strongly in the Unix philosophy: tools should be independently useful, but have clean integration points. We hope this is reflected in tools that we build, such as etcd, which have seen widespread adoption and use outside CoreOS itself. When Docker was first introduced to us in early 2013, the idea of a “standard container” was striking and immediately attracti...