the crucial value proposition of Docker was to show megacap cloud providers that containers are a thing for developers and to build them first class into their

the crucial value proposition of Docker was to show megacap cloud providers that containers are a thing for developers and to build them first class into their cloud platforms -> kubernetes. I went to a GCP conference shortly after Docker went big and everyone was talking about it. It was no surprise that Google mentioned the word "container" 100s of times throughout the full day conference and never mentioned the name Docker once.