Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:45PM
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> What exactly would an enterprise version offer that would make someone pay a per-server licensing cost?
Orchestration. Compose/Swarm, which Google gave away for free as k8s (In the interest of completeness, I'll add Hashicorp's Nomad will also orchestrate containers as well as binaries). The idea of Docker monetizing died with that action by Google (and to a lesser extent, Hashicorp, although Nomad does have an enterprise version which corps are paying for and using). Google needed something to slow down AWS adoption, and Docker was collateral damage. The rest of necessary tooling for container management (build, pull, push, local dev management, registries) is fairly trivial [1].
Now anyone can run Kubernetes (or Nomad), either self-hosted or with a hosted provider, which is great for the industry but not so good for Docker.
Orchestration. Compose/Swarm, which Google gave away for free as k8s (In the interest of completeness, I'll add Hashicorp's Nomad will also orchestrate containers as well as binaries). The idea of Docker monetizing died with that action by Google (and to a lesser extent, Hashicorp, although Nomad does have an enterprise version which corps are paying for and using). Google needed something to slow down AWS adoption, and Docker was collateral damage. The rest of necessary tooling for container management (build, pull, push, local dev management, registries) is fairly trivial [1].
Now anyone can run Kubernetes (or Nomad), either self-hosted or with a hosted provider, which is great for the industry but not so good for Docker.
[1] https://github.com/p8952/bocker (Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash)