Docker Launches New Orchestration Tools

Docker is expanding its “batteries included but swappable” open source ecosystem to empower developers and system administrators to launch and manage portable distributed applications.

The San Francisco-based open source platform provider has released three new orchestration tools that are designed to help developers and system administrators create Dockerized apps.

Docker’s new orchestration tools include:

Additionally, Docker has incorporated over 30 working and proposed partner and community integrations into its open source ecosystem, including Dockerized distributed applications from:

“Distributed applications are dynamically evolving and in constant motion,” Solomon Hykes, Docker’s founder, said in a prepared statement. “I’m excited to share with the community the growing validation of our model by providing great collaborations that ensure complete freedom of choice in how and where these multi-container, multi-host applications are being built, shipped and run.”

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The first versions of Docker’s Compose, Machine and Swarm tools are now available.

Docker’s open source platform has been downloaded more than 200 million times, and the company’s open source ecosystem has resulted in more than 95,000 Dockerized applications and integration partnerships.

The demand for Docker is expected to increase soon, too. RightScale’s “2015 State of the Cloud Report” of 930 technical professionals revealed that 13 percent of organizations are already using Docker, and 35 percent said they plan to use it.

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