Open Source Deployment, Customization & Integration
Last week, Docker Inc’s reorganization where it sold its Docker Enterprise business to Mirantis, and received $35 million in fresh VC funding to focus on developer tooling shook the container and virtualization industry. Loyal users of Docker Swarm, the orchestration solution pushed by the company that kicked off the container revolution, are picking up the pieces and asking about the future of SwarmKit, the open source project behind Swarm.
Post-IBM acquisition Red Hat has crippled Docker on the inaugural release of CentOS 8, in a bid to force users to switch to podman (Pod Manager), the container engine backed by the company. Although the supporters of Podman argue that podman’s daemonless and rootless design make it more lightweight & secure than the Docker daemon, Podman has no orchestration features other than the ability to generate kubectl configuration files, which makes it a non-starter for Docker Compose and Swarm users.