[gtirloni]

I wish the OP hadn't deleted his comment. It is really a valid one.

Just for reference for those getting their first idea about containers from this hyperbolic Wired article (so you know this is not something that just came to existence today):

FreeBSD 4.0 (2000) shipped with Jail support. Solaris 10 (2005) came with containers. OpenVZ 1 (2005) had its first stable release. LXC seems to have started in 2008.

In contrast, Docker initial release was on March 2013. The stable version (v1.0) is about to be released.

[ams6110]

Sometimes ideas are just ahead of their time. Mac OS X essentially existed in the early 1990s (as NEXTSTEP, and there were a number of really cool apps unlike any that existed for the PC) but it was a market flop at that time.