Shuttleworth: Introducing the Fan

Mark Shuttleworth announces "theFan", a new mechanism for directing communications between containers."We recognised that container networking is unusual, and quite unliketrue software-defined networking, in that the number of containers you wanton each host is probably roughly the same. You want to run a couple hundredcontainers on each VM. You also don't (in the docker case) want to livemigrate them around, you just kill them and start them againelsewhere. Essentially, what you need is an address multiplier - anywhereyou have one interface, it would be handy to have 250 of theminstead."See this page fordetails on how it works.