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VMware has a ton of product, none of them really competes with Docker. They do have Tanzu I suppose, but that more a Kubernetes offering. I would argue that th
by mrweasel 4y ago
VMware has a ton of product, none of them really competes with Docker. They do have Tanzu I suppose, but that more a Kubernetes offering.
I would argue that there are more Docker containers running on a VM, running on top of VMware than there are Docker containers running on bare metal servers.
Both VMs and containers can be used and misused in a number of ways, but rarely can you replace a VM on VMware ESXi with Docker. There's still a massive business case for VMware and the only real competitors are Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer (if it's still called that).
You also have to remember that there's a crazy big Microsoft world out there, Docker and containers still aren't of much use here. While this could run on Hyper-V, many just pick ESXi because it's what they know (No one was ever fired for choosing VMware).
- 999900000999 4y agoYou can run Windows in Docker. Ether figure it out now, or in 2 years when VMware starts to suck. Then again, all the big companies I know put things off until the last moment. If I was a better developer I'd be putting together a project right now that allows you to run all your happy legacy Windows software with Docker. Shouldn't be hard to raise a bit of funding for such a project assuming you have the right background.
- thedougd 4y agoI'm running some in production. Windows containers are full of problems, gotchas, and caveats. It feels as though Microsoft has already abandoned it and moved on. Similar feelings with DSC and other modernization efforts for Windows. I believe their focus has entirely shifted to Azure and will slowly replace the Windows Server use cases with SaaS and PaaS offerings.
- solarkraft 4y ago> You can run Windows in Docker ... on Windows. So it doesn't really mesh with a typical server environment.
- 999900000999 4y agoOk, use Windows Server as your host. Or use Virtual Box on Ubuntu
- dangerboysteve 4y agoCitrix Xenserver is now called Citrix Hypervisor and there was also a fork of Xenserver by a French company called Vates and they have an opensource version called XCP-NG. Vates offer support and other addons.