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What does this mean for vendors like VMWare that want VMs to be the unit of deployment that developers interface with? Seems to me that VMWare's VM management
by TheMagicHorsey 11y ago
What does this mean for vendors like VMWare that want VMs to be the unit of deployment that developers interface with?
Seems to me that VMWare's VM management technology is still needed, but the clock is now running on how long it will be before their part of the stack is irrelevant, as all the smarts move into the container-management layer.
- joslin01 11y agoWell, VMs are what makes it possible for a service like AWS to spin up an instance for you. They'll be needed, but you're right, developers won't look to them as solutions for their deployment problem.
- xahrepap 11y agoI'm at DockerCon and VMWare has a booth. They demoed some cool stuff. Like using docker as the interface to some of their stuff. It wasn't pure containers, but they had non-linux "containers" running (DOS was their demo). Powered by VMWare but the interface was Docker. It even supported commits, pulls, and pushes. That will be a good "polyfill" for platforms that aren't supported by Docker (yet). It seems to me that VMWare is looking for ways to stay relevant long term.
- travem 11y agoHere's the video of the VMware demo of running MSDOS using docker - http://youtu.be/NrsVbnn-znk http://youtu.be/NrsVbnn-znk