Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M

Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by tombert on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:02PM (#21528052)

That's not entirely fair. Yes, LXC/OpenVZ is cool and does some awesome container stuff, but part of what makes docker so neat is more than just containerization. Everything is "stateless"; you can reproduce environments exactly across machines with dockerfiles and as such it lends itself well for local development, but also distributed deployment (such as docker swarm).

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by takeda on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:45PM (#21532858)

Dockerfile provides as much reproducible environment as bash shell script.

This is why I have beef with docker, it was marketed to solve multiple things, but ultimately it becomes over-glorified zip file. It absolutely fails in reproducibility and I constantly see scenarios where Dockerfile that worked one day broke another day, or it worked on one machine and broke on another and so on.

Yes, you can put extra effort and make your dockerfile reproducible, but similarly you can make a reproducible bash script.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by streetcat1 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:06PM (#21528093)

Yes. But I guess in 5 years or less there will be another runtime (especially now that the company is basically dissolved), while namespaces, etc will stay.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by tombert on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:09PM (#21528132)

I don't know that that's true; Google and Microsoft seem to have really started betting on Docker and, for better or for worse, they are big trend-setting companies, so I suspect it's more likely that one of them would purchase it and continue working on it before it just goes away.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by tssva on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:03PM (#21528828)

Google and Microsoft have really started betting on containerization. Neither has really started betting on Docker.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by tracker1 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#21529199)

Considering Google, Azure, AWS, DO, IBM and others all have cloud offerings centered around Kubernetes with Docker compatible containers, even if some of the tooling changes, I don't expect that "Docker" will really go anywhere. I would be surprised if the next step doesn't have it swallowed by one of the above companies (probably not DO though).

Even for AWS Lambda, I use docker to build linux lambda packages on non-linux environments (docker for windows/mac). The easiest way to get a service up in Elastic Beanstalk is with a Dockerfile.

Even if Docker (organization) does die, Docker (open source tooling) will live on for a very long time. And although I do like where podman and others are coming from, I don't think that it will displace docker in the long run.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by keoeoj83 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:41PM (#21529291)

Boot2Kube Linux distros will be the norm

One of the daemonless tools out there now or some interface specifically for Kube will exist as a dependency

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by imtringued on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:16PM (#21531331)

Docker is more than just a runtime.

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