Docker, Inc

The main area of ​ ​ activity is the development of Docker - ON automating the deployment and management of applications in an environment virtualizations at the level. operating system Linux Docker is the developer of the open platform of the same name and the main sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators, which the latter use when creating, implementing, managing and integrating container applications. Docker technologies will enable IT companies to reduce the time to market for applications from months to minutes, help them easily distribute workloads between data centers and the cloud, and increase the utilization of their existing infrastructure by more than 50%. At the moment, Docker services have been downloaded more than 57 million times and are used in thousands of global companies - leaders in the field of innovation, including eBay, Baidu, Yelp,, Spotify Yandex and Cambridge HealthCare.

Docker is a venture capital project supported by AME Cloud Ventures (Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang), Benchmark (Peter Fenton), Greylock Partners (Jerry Chen), Insight Venture Partners (Jerry Murdock), Sequoia Capital (Bill Coughran), SV Angel (Ron Conway), Trinity Ventures (Dan Scholnick), Y Combinator.

History

2022: Raising $105 million

Docker has raised more than $100 million in funding. This became known on April 7, 2022.

After the sale of Mirantis's corporate division in 2019, Docker rebuilt all its work, focusing primarily on developers of containers applications.

Private investment firms Bain Capital Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, Citi Ventures and others invested another $105 million in Docker. In 2019, Docker sold the corporate division to Mirantis, and since then the total amount of investments attracted by it has reached $163 million, and the valuation of the company - up to $2.1 billion.

Docker was forced to restructure all work - a strategy for product development, entering the market, a business model - said Docker CEO Scott Johnston in an interview with InfoWorld. Now the company focuses primarily on developers of containers applications. They support the Docker Hub container image repository, various container assembly tools, and the Docker Desktop application, which in 2021 the company made paid for enterprise users. The further development of the Docker container platform will primarily be associated with increased container security, as well as increased support for new application architectures - including server-free ones and using technology WebAssembly^[1].

2019: Mirantis acquires part of the business associated with the Docker Enterprise platform

On November 18, 2019, TAdviser became aware that Mirantis, a company specializing in the development and support of cloud solutions based on OpenStack, bought a key part of the business related to the Docker Enterprise platform from Docker Inc. More details here.

2014: IBM and Docker announce strategic partnership to build business applications in the cloud and locally

In December 2014, IBM and Docker announced a strategic partnership that will allow enterprises to more quickly and cost-effectively develop and run next-generation applications in the cloud using the IBM Cloud service and locally based on the open Docker platform. By collaborating with IBM and Docker, enterprises will be able to leverage the achievements of both companies to build and manage a new generation of portable distributed applications that are quickly built on Docker container technologies, have a dynamic lifecycle and can be launched directly from the developer's laptop, as well as numerous hosts in the cloud.

As Docker's first sales partner for end-to-end solutions, IBM will become the leading provider of Docker Hub Enterprise (DHE), the flagship Docker product for the enterprise market. DHE allows enterprises to automate the creation and deployment of applications running on multiple servers, which, in turn, allows developers to focus on creating various firewall-protected services, as well as their integration with the best examples of Docker services, the number of which in the Docker Hub currently exceeds 60 thousand.

By working with IBM, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions based on Synergy Research, both companies can run on an open Docker platform and use new APIs to create and manage distributed applications. Developing, implementing, and maintaining multi-container and multi-host applications in the cloud will also be more efficient. In addition, this partnership will increase developer productivity and accelerate the time to market for smart applications that, thanks to IBM technologies, will have a high level of security and integration with major existing enterprise systems, including service and DevOps management.

As part of the partnership agreement, IBM also announced a beta version of IBM Containers, a container service that is based on Docker and includes its original functions and interfaces, including new tools for harmonious service interaction. As part of IBM's open cloud platform for application development, IBM Containers will allow businesses to deploy Docker containers directly into the IBM cloud using IBM BlueMix SoftLayer without a pre-installed operating system. With Docker container technologies, organizations will have an easy-to-manage and more flexible user environment model with high utilization and performance that will extend the range of applications available that IBM Cloud supports.

IBM plans to promote Docker Hub Enterprise in conjunction with these comprehensive solutions and as a separate product. IBM will demonstrate the first results of its integration with Docker on its stand at DockerCon EU.

2013: Rename to Docker

The company began under the name dotCloud in 2008. In October 2013, it dotCloud renamed Docker.