Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by tombert on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:09PM
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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
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Google and Microsoft have really started betting on containerization. Neither has really started betting on Docker.
Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by tracker1 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:32PM
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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.