While ostensibly viewed as a virtualization platform by people who are unfamiliar with Docker, it is far more than that. Docker’s core domain spans a few crowded segments of the industry that include technologies like KVM, Xen, OpenStack, Mesos, Capistrano, Fabric, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, and so on. There is something very telling about the list of products that Docker competes with, and maybe you’ve spotted it already. Most engineers would not say that virtualization products compete with configuration management tools, yet both technologies are being disrupted by Docker.
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While ostensibly viewed as a virtualization platform by people who are unfamiliar with Docker, it is far more than that. Docker’s core domain spans a few crowded segments of the industry that include technologies like KVM, Xen, OpenStack, Mesos, Capistrano, Fabric, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, and so on. There is something very telling about the list of products that Docker competes with, and maybe you’ve spotted it already. Most engineers would not say that virtualization products compete with configuration management tools, yet both technologies are being disrupted by Docker.