NEWS
NEWS
NEWS
Docker drops anchor in China with Alibaba Cloud partnership
Docker Inc. is bringing the container phenomenon to China via a partnership with one of its biggest cloud computing providers, Alibaba Cloud.
Founded back in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of well-known Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., and claims to be China’s largest public cloud provider. It says it’s entering into a wide-ranging partnership with Docker that will advance the user experience for developers throughout China by providing a mirror of the Docker image store, and also distribution for the Docker Hub on its cloud platform.
The move is significant, because Docker Hub, a central public repository for Docker images, is thought to have played a crucial role in the expansion of Docker container applications. The main benefit of the Docker Hub is that it provides developers with access to thousands of freely available, open-source containerized applications. By teaming up with Alibaba, Docker is making those same apps available to Chinese developers too, thereby securing a potentially massive new audience for its technology.
“As enterprises in China and throughout the world begin to modernize their application environments, there has been an increasing demand for an easy solution to deploy Docker on Alibaba Cloud,” Sicheng Yu, Vice President of Alibaba Group and General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Global, said in a statement. “Our partnership with Docker will bring enterprises the full lifecycle management needed to scale existing implementations into production.”
Along with the Docker Hub on Alibaba’s cloud, Docker is also launching its commercially supported product, Docker Datacenter, in China. Docker Datacenter, which comprises the Universal Control Plane for management, the Docker Trusted Registry for application images and the Commercially Support Docker Engine, enables what Docker calls “containers-as-a-service,” with improved security, policy and controls to the application lifecycle, without sacrificing agility or application portability.
Nick Stinemates, vice president of business development and technical alliances at Docker, called the partnership “a critical step to enable our vision of ‘write-once, run-anywhere’ apps that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.” He said the partnership will allow organizations to containerize legacy applications and build new microservices using Docker and Alibaba Cloud.
Photo Credit: Pictrues Flickr via Compfight cc
A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:
Support our mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE’s Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities.
- 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more
- 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni — Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network
Are you an AWS customer? Support SiliconANGLE financially by buying your AWS services from our Marketplace portal page and links: https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/
About SiliconANGLE Media
SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, uniting breakthrough technology, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios — with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange — SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI.
Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. Our new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.
