SAN FRANCISCO and REDMOND, Wash., Oct.
15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft
Corp. and Docker Inc., the company behind the
fast-growing Docker open platform for distributed applications, on
Wednesday announced a strategic partnership to provide Docker with
support for new container technologies that will be delivered in a
future release of Windows Server. Developers and organizations that
want to create container applications using Docker will be able to
use either Windows Server or Linux with the same growing Docker
ecosystem of users, applications and tools.
Today's business climate requires higher levels of innovation
than before, and distributed applications that support open
portability are at the forefront of this demand. Docker is
addressing this need, driving developer productivity and agility
through a containerization approach that moves application code
changes from development to production in minutes, enabling
real-time change.
"The strength of Windows Server in the enterprise makes its
inclusion into the Docker project a watershed event for the Docker
community and ecosystem," said Solomon
Hykes, chief technology officer, founder and chief
maintainer of Docker. "Creating a common approach and user
interface for containerization and distributed applications will
catalyze a new wave of applications that will be transformative
across all organizations."
"We recognize the importance of providing flexibility to our
customers as they look to innovate in this mobile-first,
cloud-first world," said Scott
Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud & Enterprise
at Microsoft. "To deliver this flexibility, we are already
providing first-class support for Docker and Linux on our rapidly
growing cloud platform, Microsoft Azure. Our partnership with
Docker further deepens our commitment to help create an open
platform powered by choice, bringing together Windows Server and
Linux to drive application innovation."
Together, Microsoft and Docker will enable developers to create
new, compelling business scenarios that allow Microsoft's server
and cloud platform customers to benefit from the best work of the
Docker open source community. Key components of the partnership
include the following:
- Docker Engine, the open source runtime that builds, runs and
orchestrates containers, will work with the next release of Windows
Server. In addition, Docker Engine images for Windows Server will
be available in the community-driven Docker Hub, where more than
45,000 Docker applications are currently shared across developer
communities. This will help drive greater developer agility by
making available some of the best images for Windows Server and
Linux.
- Docker Hub will also be integrated into Microsoft Azure
directly through the Azure Management Portal and Azure Gallery.
This will allow Microsoft's vast ecosystem of ISVs and cloud
developers to have access to some of the best work of Docker's
community to drive rapid innovation on both Windows Server and
Linux.
- Microsoft has also announced its contribution to Docker's open
orchestration APIs, ensuring portability for multicontainer
applications. For the first time, developers will be able to
directly work with a preconfigured Docker Engine in Azure to create
a multicontainer Dockerized application. This new joint capability
will be demonstrated at Docker's Global Hack Day.
- The Docker Engine for Windows Server will be developed under
the aegis of the Docker open source project, where Microsoft plans
to participate as an active community member.
"The power of Azure and Windows Server leveraging the Docker
platform redefines what enterprises should expect and demand from
their cloud," said Ben Golub, CEO of
Docker. "Together, we will provide a framework for building
multiplatform distributed applications that can be created with
exceptional velocity and deployed and scaled globally."
Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech) has made the
Docker Engine for Linux available to Microsoft Azure customers
since June 2014. Engineers from Docker and MS Open Tech continue to
work together to orchestrate containers on Azure, which is planned
to be integrated in the next Docker release. Wednesday's
partnership further solidifies this collaboration to provide even
greater flexibility and choice to the Windows Server and Linux
communities.
Additional Content:
Microsoft Azure blog
post
Microsoft Open Technologies blog post
Docker blog post
About Docker Inc.
Docker, Inc. is the company behind the Docker open source
platform, and is the chief sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker
is an open platform for developers and system administrators to
build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. With
Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to
minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the
cloud, and improve infrastructure efficiency by 50 percent or more.
Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source
innovation, Docker has been downloaded 35+ million times and is
used by thousands of the world's most innovative organizations,
including eBay, Baidu, Yelp, Spotify, Yandex, and Cambridge
HealthCare. Docker's rapid adoption has catalyzed an active
ecosystem, resulting in more than 45,000 Dockerized applications
and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM,
Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.
Docker, Inc. is venture backed by AME Cloud
Ventures (Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang),
Benchmark (Peter Fenton),
Greylock Partners (Jerry Chen),
Insight Venture Partners (Jerry
Murdock), Sequoia Capital (Bill
Coughran), SV Angel (Ron
Conway), Trinity Ventures (Dan
Scholnick), Y Combinator.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide
leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help
people and businesses realize their full potential.
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