[acjohnson55]

This sounds like the beginning of something very cool, especially if they can add in the automatic deployment of non-code services and credentialing, which really streamline their service. The idea of running my own sandbox host on a Ubuntu image with equal ease of deployment vs. using their hosting service is appealing.

That being said, as impressive as this progress is, there's still some distance to cover. Not to be a hater, but docker+sandbox still doesn't equal their old Sandbox service "flavor". Minimal configuration is the primary allure of, not just dotCloud, but the PaaS ecosystem as a whole. Had they waited until these projects reached maturity before sunsetting their Sandbox service, I might still be deploying my whole stack to dotCloud.