Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO

Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO by CamouflagedKiwi on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:25AM (#19866095)

That wasn't a likely outcome; containers are too critical to platforms like Kubernetes for those platforms to allow them to be locked up by a company with an enterprise subscription. Also they aren't hard enough for that to work; there's lots of experts out there around namespaces that would write an alternative container runtime before getting locked in that way.

The elephant in the room for Docker is that there's not an effective way to monetise it - Docker Hub subscriptions clearly aren't going to cut it for a company with lots of investment and hundreds of employees.

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Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO by bsaul on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:20AM (#19866341)

In retrospect they should have partenered with a company like digitalocean to create a docker cloud platform.

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Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO by nickstinemates on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:32PM (#19872125)

My job was to create these opportunities and they were there - internal politics prohibited them from getting done.

Prior to all of the Docker as a Service endpoints getting launched, there was an internal pitch for a Docker as a Service program aimed at all of the cloud vendors as part of a Docker ubiquity/available everywhere strategy.

The push back internally was that we should create these integrations and sell them to the cloud vendors. That was never going to work, but, about 3 years past the mark we started talking publicly about 'Docker Editions.' A little late to the party by then..

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