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Docker Universal Control Plane

33 points by jgrahamc 11y ago

lyschoening 11y ago
"Plane" or "Panel"? They don't seem to be quite certain either.
- KenCochrane 11y ago
  It is Plane
  - lyschoening 11y ago
    Ok, I can see it is corrected now.
alexhawdon 11y ago
Is this like a self-hosted Tutum?
nl 11y ago
Hu? I've worked with VMWare/AWS/OpenStack in both "Enterprise" and "real world" environments. I've spent a long time reading vendor white papers and I've had the misfortune of writing a few. I've used Docker pretty extensively too. Unfortunately I'm not too sure what this does. So I think what this does is let you deploy and move Docker containers and hence Dockerized apps between hosts. Maybe? But what does this mean "For developers and IT operations teams, Universal Control Panel provides a quick and easy way to build, ship, and run distributed apps from a single Docker framework." So this isn't just a management app?
- IanCal 11y ago
  Looks like "opsworks" but not limited to AWS (and hopefully less frustrating). I guess this is coming from tutum who they bought recently and have been building basically the same thing. That's great, because so far I've mostly had great experiences with tutum. Here's the blogpost announcing it: http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-universal-control-plane/ http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-univ... There seem to be some features like poking running containers from the UI: https://twitter.com/svsteenis/status/666568775672705024/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/svsteenis/status/666568775672705024/phot...
- CSDude 11y ago
  To sum up, it is a frontend for Docker swarm, including volume and multi host network management. Additionally, it has ldap/ad integration, so it has auth/access controls for containers. And some minor stuff too.
ssewell 11y ago
I can't help but feel like Docker is lacking focus and a proliferation of tools with overlapping roles are emerging. So we have Docker Machine to provision nodes from command line, Kitematic as a GUI version, Tutum, which is similar to both (albeit more powerful) but hosted by Docker, and now the Universal Control Plane. I'm having trouble understanding exactly what the Universal Control Plane does. There doesn't seem to be much available in terms of documentation, just the beta signup page.
- kitwalker12 11y ago
  I feel like this is a self-hosted tutum-like environment for managing containers
contingencies 11y ago
Can't help but feel that 'control plane' is the new 'shell script': I never heard this term until recently, and it seems to be on the hype-train, certainly in Silly-Valley. I wonder, does that Google historical search-frequency analyzer thang let you do geographic breakdowns? Anyone else remember HP-issued SNMP-based management software from the 1990s: control plane indeed! I'd wager this is part of what inspired Nagios.
zaroth 11y ago
Better and less buzz-word compliant description with nice system diagrams is on the blog post: http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-universal-control-plane/ http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-univ...

33 points by jgrahamc 11y ago

lyschoening 11y ago

"Plane" or "Panel"? They don't seem to be quite certain either.

KenCochrane 11y ago
It is Plane
- lyschoening 11y ago
  Ok, I can see it is corrected now.

alexhawdon 11y ago

Is this like a self-hosted Tutum?

nl 11y ago

Hu? I've worked with VMWare/AWS/OpenStack in both "Enterprise" and "real world" environments. I've spent a long time reading vendor white papers and I've had the misfortune of writing a few. I've used Docker pretty extensively too. Unfortunately I'm not too sure what this does. So I think what this does is let you deploy and move Docker containers and hence Dockerized apps between hosts. Maybe? But what does this mean "For developers and IT operations teams, Universal Control Panel provides a quick and easy way to build, ship, and run distributed apps from a single Docker framework." So this isn't just a management app?

IanCal 11y ago
Looks like "opsworks" but not limited to AWS (and hopefully less frustrating). I guess this is coming from tutum who they bought recently and have been building basically the same thing. That's great, because so far I've mostly had great experiences with tutum. Here's the blogpost announcing it: http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-universal-control-plane/ http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-univ... There seem to be some features like poking running containers from the UI: https://twitter.com/svsteenis/status/666568775672705024/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/svsteenis/status/666568775672705024/phot...
CSDude 11y ago
To sum up, it is a frontend for Docker swarm, including volume and multi host network management. Additionally, it has ldap/ad integration, so it has auth/access controls for containers. And some minor stuff too.

ssewell 11y ago

I can't help but feel like Docker is lacking focus and a proliferation of tools with overlapping roles are emerging. So we have Docker Machine to provision nodes from command line, Kitematic as a GUI version, Tutum, which is similar to both (albeit more powerful) but hosted by Docker, and now the Universal Control Plane. I'm having trouble understanding exactly what the Universal Control Plane does. There doesn't seem to be much available in terms of documentation, just the beta signup page.

kitwalker12 11y ago
I feel like this is a self-hosted tutum-like environment for managing containers

contingencies 11y ago

Can't help but feel that 'control plane' is the new 'shell script': I never heard this term until recently, and it seems to be on the hype-train, certainly in Silly-Valley. I wonder, does that Google historical search-frequency analyzer thang let you do geographic breakdowns? Anyone else remember HP-issued SNMP-based management software from the 1990s: control plane indeed! I'd wager this is part of what inspired Nagios.

zaroth 11y ago

Better and less buzz-word compliant description with nice system diagrams is on the blog post: http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-universal-control-plane/ http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-univ...