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Key Container company history timeline

1959

In 1959, after expanding J&J to four plants across the country, Jack, together with his son-in-law, Richard Strauss, decided to start a new family box plant in Rhode Island, known as Key Container Corporation.

1962

Aerial photo of the Kieckhefer Container Plant in Delair, 1962.

1979

For this trip, step into my DeLorean time machine, and let’s journey to 1979, when the concept of containers first emerged.

During the development of Unix V7 in 1979, the chroot system call was introduced, changing the root directory of a process and its children to a new location in the filesystem.

1990

Robert served as a member of the Weyerhaeuser board for 33 years until he retired in 1990, and was a member of the Executive Committee for more than 25 years.

2000

Flash-forward nearly two decades later to 2000, when a small shared-environment hosting provider came up with FreeBSD jails to achieve clear-cut separation between its services and those of its customers for security and ease of administration.

2001

Introduced in 2001, this operating system virtualization that is implemented by patching the Linux kernel.

2004

In 2004, the first public beta of Solaris Containers was released that combines system resource controls and boundary separation provided by zones, which were able to leverage features like snapshots and cloning from ZFS.

2006

Experimental patches are still available, but the last stable patch was released in 2006.

Process Containers (launched by Google in 2006) was designed for limiting, accounting and isolating resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network) of a collection of processes.

2013

Let Me Contain That For You (LMCTFY) kicked off in 2013 as an open-source version of Google's container stack, providing Linux application containers.

When Docker emerged in 2013, containers exploded in popularity.

2017

Docker’s donation of the Containerd project to the CNCF in 2017 is emblematic of this concept, as well as the CNCF's adoption of the rkt (pronounced "rocket") container runtime around the same time.

2019

2019 saw the launch of Kubernetes-based hybrid-cloud solutions such as IBM Cloud Paks , Google Anthos , Aws Outposts, and Azure Arc.

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