What is the Subutai Snap

The Subutai Snap is essentially the packaging for the Subutai P2P OS minus the Management Container. It needed to create a Peer Resource Host. It contains the services needed to amalgamate resources from physical or virtual machines into a single Subutai Peer.

Snappy or snapd as it is now called was used as the packaging for Subutai. Why? Well first of all it provides a sandbox for containers other people own and prevents them from escaping this sandbox. Secondly it is a transactional package manager. Peers cannot afford to be compromised due to an upgrade failure where they fail to upgrade yet enter an inconsistent state.

See the Subutai Snap Subproject Wiki for detailed information.