DockerCon’s recent sold-out event in Seattle offered an amalgam of company and product announcements, perhaps none as surprising as that delivered by Docker’s own CEO Ben Golub: 70 percent of enterprise companies have now implemented containerization. Docker itself has seen 460,000 containerized applications. What does this mean for Puppet and Chef IT automation platforms? Hard to implement, often plagued with problems, and difficult to use, these platforms are fading in the DevOps world as Container as Service (SaaS) rises in popularity. Forging your own path and succeeding with Docker means picking your application smartly, engaging Swarm, and getting your developers comfortable with Linux. Read more here.
