Terminal.com: Full System Linux Containers with Bare-metal Speed

Terminal is a new kind of Linux Cloud. Think of it as a complete software defined datacenter delivering full system containers that can do anything your local machine can do.

Terminal is fast. It allows anyone to provision full linux machines of almost any size in under 5 seconds and resize them at will without rebooting. Terminal is scalable. It supports tens of thousands of users in the public cloud and many installations in private clouds. Terminal is resilient. It can create RAM-perfect snapshots on every file system delta and store those snapshots in a geographically diverse manner.

Terminal features a software defined distributed virtual file system, networking layer, and transparent migration across physical hosts.

This talk will cover some of the design considerations that went into building Terminal and some of the use cases. There will be a short demonstration of how Terminal works as well.