It has been said that every company must become a software company to survive in the future. Companies making the transition often find themselves juggling armfuls of brain-teasing new tech from a slew of vendors. Is there anywhere they can turn for fully baked solutions that don’t have countless pieces to assemble?

“Part of the value of Docker is we simplify very complex things and make it available to our customers to consume with very little training, very little understanding of the underlying deep technology,” said Steve Singh (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer of Docker Inc.

Docker’s claim to fame is its simplification of containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications). It’s now looking to go farther, integrating other technologies into its platform and simplifying customers’ engagement with them.

Singh spoke with Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host John Troyer (@jtroyer), chief reckoner at TechReckoning, during the DockerCon event in San Francisco. They discussed Docker’s inclusive platform and its latest announcements. (* Disclosure below.)

New easy buttons and the fabled single pane of glass

Docker embraces the wide universe of complementary tech — open-source or otherwise. It has integrated the Kubernetes container orchestration management platform, for instance.

“Our job is to take complicated technology — like container management software, orchestration layers like Swarm or Kubernetes, service mesh, storage networking — all of this and make it so simple and easy to use that your IT department can say, ‘I can use this platform to effectively future proof your company,” Singh explained.

The company just announced a new feature for Docker Desktop that will make it easier than ever to design container-based applications. A million developers joined Desktop this year, and another million will join over the course of one more year, according to Singh.

Docker also announced new capabilities for Docker Enterprise Edition, the enterprise-ready container platform. They allow users to run any application on any operating system and on any infrastructure — all from a single pane of glass, Singh stated.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the DockerCon event. (* Disclosure: Docker Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Docker nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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