First domestic first to support the Docker Machine Tencent goes behind the open source in order to build standards based system
On January 6, 2015, Tencent announced cloud computing companies became the first support the Docker Machine vendors, and positioning themselves as Docker infrastructure service providers, building a Docker “shipping” to the first step of the infrastructure. Meanwhile, on the premise supporting Docker Machine, Tencent’s cloud are also commonly used standard Docker mirror system, for users to create a container that one-click convenience. Move to internal developers and Docker lovers, heralded by Docker Machine tool makes it easy to Tencent cloud virtual machines run on the Docker containers, thus substantially reducing the developer manual settings, custom scripts, in time, accelerate the iteration and development cycles; support also means that Tencent cloud Docker, facilitating a new Docker open source strength.
It is reported that Docker application engine is an open source container, can become standardised, portable, self-managed components, do not rely on any languages, frameworks and systems. In the past 15 months time, Docker companies not only from trough to peak, has won 3 rounds of financing, on September 16, Docker announced it had secured $ 40 million c round, the lead investor Sequoia Capital and existing investors Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners and Jerry Yang and other Senate vote, highly favored by capital markets; and Docker and 275W container downloads, up to about 14,000 applications, In 33 countries and 90 Docker technical group is established, now include issues such as Amazon, IBM, Red Hat, Google, Ubuntu, OpenStack, VMware and many mainstream companies announced support for Docker technology or are prepared to support.
Tencent’s senior product manager Liu Yongfeng said Docker is not a virtualization technology, long before the Docker, Container technology has existed for many years. But the traditional Container will only solve the problem of Run, does not solve the problem of Build and Ship. And Docker just provides has set building, and distribution and Executive container of standardization system, it can analogy Yu global shipping system in the of “container”, it and port, and container draught, and hanging shipped container of crane, and even land transport container of trailer, and container of size defines, and TRANS-way, and customs process, common constitute has modern global shipping system specification, if said Linux Container defines has computer field of container, so Docker now and the future, Is redefined so that a system of global shipping.
“As cloud computing infrastructure provider, Tencent cloud-what can be done about it? We, of course, not just as a Docker automated deployment tools, or a system of DevOps. Our location is the Docker infrastructure service providers. In the case of the shipping system is not perfect right now, we are committed to building the underlying infrastructure. We need to get our ship capable of carrying the shipping system became standard-compliant container. Meanwhile, and the shipping of other infrastructure linking up well. For example, we will build our containers draught, let our ship into the Docker of the standardization system, or we will be able to construct the port and container yards. Let the shippers of goods by containers convenient transport, and shipping companies can easily do business in Tencent clouds above. “Liu Yongfeng told reporters in a comparable manner.
It is understood that at the just-concluded meeting of the European DockerCon, Docker launched the distributed application orchestrating services across containers, layout services can help developers and operations staff to create and manage the next generation of distributed applications that can be transplanted. In these containers in orchestrating services, there is an important service called Docker Machine, primarily on infrastructure in various vendors ‘ Docker quick installation deployment services, the current official now supports AWS, Azure.
Liu Yongfeng pointed out that Tencent clouds the future construction of infrastructure is more than just tugboats, container, there are storage containers yard, Port Road, hoisting equipment, pipelines, and so on, are we to make of these facilities. We want to be part of this unprecedented revolution in technology, this revolutionary technology with Docker, our cloud service, convenient transportation to millions of households.
Industry experts say: Tencent as the first domestic support the Docker Machine vendors, in order to support the development of open source has made a good start, this move can be described as a significant step in the country build Docker “shipping” to the first step of the infrastructure. It is like Docker defines standards for container lifting equipment, Tencent cloud container tugs the first to support this standard, it will be able to facilitate the hoisting equipment containers lifted onto the boat. Docker as a standardized virtual layer can not only bridge the differences underlying architecture, user operations deployed across cloud providers and traditional IDC, dispatching and disaster as well as the perfect solution for proprietary PAAS system, there is a great potential in the private cloud and significance.