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This will give IT organizations the option of getting an Enterprise supported distribution of Kubernetes from Docker. Historically, most IT orgs requiring supp
by caleblloyd 9y ago
This will give IT organizations the option of getting an Enterprise supported distribution of Kubernetes from Docker.
Historically, most IT orgs requiring supported k8s have either gone cloud with something like Google Container Engine or gone with OpenShift and get support from RedHat. OpenShift is a fork if kubernetes though and lags a year or so behind. It also adds opinionated features such as Image Streams.
Docker's announcement said they were using "real" kubernetes, not a fork or a wrapper. I've setup kubernetes by hand before and it is no easy feat. I'm looking forward to evaluating Docker's solution and maintenance upgrade process.
UPDATE: My goal with this post is not to sell people one way or another, but moreso to explain where some of Docker's reasoning for this integration is coming from.
Disclosure: I work for a Docker partner
- tachion 9y agoThere is (and was for a while already) Kubernetes distribution called Tectonic, with enterprise support from CoreOS.
- caleblloyd 9y agoYes there are other supported distribution out there, I believe Cannonical also has one. IT orgs are very comfortable with RedHat though so that has been the majority of what we've seen IT orgs go to for Kubernetes. Disclosure: I work for a Docker Partner
- tnolet 9y agoDon't take this the wrong way, but I love how we are already talking about "historically" in the context of Kubernetes enterprise support when the first release of Kubernetes was in 2014 and AFAICS pro-support is something from the last 1.5 years. Crazy world!
- InTheArena 9y agoThis. It's hard not to see Redhat (and to a lesser degree VMware) as the big looser of today's news. I absolutely want to see how this is implemented. Openshift's pricing is highway robbery. Disclosure: my company is (was?) a big Openshift consumer...
- merb 9y agoVMware actually supports K8s. (you can even pay for support)
- jacques_chester 9y agoI'll be interested in how they go too; productionising k8s is surprisingly tricky and Red Hat have made a heavy investment to do so. I have skin in this game as well, as my other comments on this post demonstrate. We (Pivotal & Google) kinda skipped the hard bits of keeping up with k8s by packaging it as a BOSH release, so we'll always be up to date. That's actually one of the project goals: parity with vanilla k8s, because it is vanilla k8s, operated by a lower-level system.