Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

• No dependency of a daemon
• Can be run as a simple user
  • Avoid permission headaches and hacks
• Image/container is a file (or directory)
• More easily portable
• Two type of images
  • Read-only (production)
  • Writable (development, via sandbox)

Weaknesses

• At the time of writing only good support in Linux
  • Mac experimental. Desktop edition. Only running
• For some features you need root account (or sudo)