Introduction to Image Features

##Introduction to Image Features

All of the images provided share a common set of features designed as a standard development framework which also caters to the varied needs of complex cloud deployments. In other words, these images were designed from the ground-up in the spirit of DevOps, creating a seamless technology bridge between the needs of developers and the needs of those who manage infrastructure and deployment.

All containers (and derivatives you create) support the following features:

1. They support three modes of operation: closed, attached-storage, and developer.
2. They have consistent start-up command lines and have consistent environment variable usage, which developers can build upon.
3. They support various externally-triggerable tasks such as get-help to get a self-documenting descripiton of the image, get-launcher to extract pre-defined launcher scripts tailored to the image, and get-chaplocal to get scripts to allow developers to create their own local development environment for working on the image.
4. They have a pre-established start-up sequence, including a startup.d directory where additional start-up scripts can be stored, along with README files where needed so that such things are self-documenting.
5. They are highly customizable.