Providing Business Value
Key leaders in many IT organizations
are grasping containers’ potential for
accelerating development cycles and
lowering operational costs.
ward by the open-source development community,
not just Docker the company. VMware chose a closed,
Microsoft-style model for its virtualization project,
and not surprisingly found itself with Microsoft as a
direct (and eventually competent) competitor.
Docker has so far stayed true to its open-source
roots, and while Docker the company may or may not
stay at the forefront of the container movement,
Docker the technology almost assuredly will main-
tain its position and relevance for the foreseeable
future. Kubernetes, Rocket, LXD, Spoonium, and oth-
ers will all have their auditions and followers within
the open source container community, but ultimately
the majority of developers will gravitate towards the
best of breed – and Docker has that crown for the
foreseeable future.
Conclusion
Common IT wisdom holds that Docker containers
aren’t ready for prime time, and that a “wait and see”
stance is most appropriate. To the casual IT observer,
the Docker container standard seems relatively new
and untested, even though it is based on Linux con-
tainer technology (LXC) which has been under devel-
opment since 2006.
My take is that container ubiquity is not all that far
off, and that many of the perceived obstacles are
already being addressed. Both new and traditional IT
organizations are overcoming the inherent chal-
lenges of new tech and leveraging Docker containers
for competitive advantage NOW. Organizations that
adopt a passive stance on containers do so at their
own risk.
Myth 6 Status: BUSTED!
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