A tale of the cities of VMware and Docker

What did the translator before the Docker affect? has shared a personal view of the possible effects of Docker on all aspects, including the impact of Docker on traditional virtualization. Recently, found a blog, there are a number of it people on the Docker and the traditional view of virtualization, dare not speak alike, the gu false translation, we read it. The following is the translation:

Like other manufacturers, VMware has begun to embrace Docker. At the VMworld conference in the summer of 2014, VMware announced its partnership and related plans with Docker.

At the same time, Docker continues to evolve. On the Dockercon of December 2014, Docker released container choreography products and was constantly working to reduce the reliance on the underlying architecture from the upper application.

Docker Company's product VP Scott Johnston, who described the container choreography: "You will no longer need a variety of separate IT management tools to implement functions such as management, deployment, monitoring, and scalability, all of which are related to these functions, It is now possible to achieve a consistent unified implementation across the enterprise.

Similarly, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and other major vendors are also itching to go, and as the container runs on more virtual machines, which could reduce the potential demand for traditional virtual machines and potentially threaten VMware's core business, VMware has begun to take precautions.

"Docker has made remarkable progress in reducing it complexity, providing simplicity and flexibility for IT staff, and many it people are excited about it," said Colbert, VP of VMware and Cloud-native's CTO Kit. VMware is also working on how to get people to really enjoy the simplicity and flexibility that Docker brings, and to ensure that Docker can work better in the customer's production environment. ”

How big is the

threat

Gary Chen, the IDC research manager, argues that Docker does not represent container technology itself, Docker primarily provides a container encapsulation technology used by IT personnel. But unlike VMware, Vsphere,docker does not have a good integration management tool, which means that the current Docker does not pose a direct threat to VMware. But if Docker better integrate its capabilities and provide more efficiency than traditional virtual machines, it poses a threat to VMware.

Currently, Docker's rapid rollout has made the container deployment and management of cloudy platforms (ListBox clouds) faster and easier. But compared to the various virtualization manufacturers to emphasize their own products and programs more mature, more secure, more manageable, Docker in the security side to face more scrutiny. Nonetheless, Gartner has said in a recent report that Docker is "immature" in terms of security, and Gartner insists that even if you run a container on top of a traditional hypervisor, there will be no security assistance.

Hashicorp founder Hashimoto (also the Vagrant author) believes that the traditional VM is not going to go away: "In fact, I don't think Docker is a subversion of VMware, or a complete replacement for VMware, but it could slow VMware down." "When it comes to VMware usage scenarios, Hashimoto said:" People will use containers, but as far as I can see, virtual machines will still be ubiquitous, and they will coexistence. ”

VMware efforts

At the same time, VMware is trying to provide the best possible container-use experience for customers. Kit Colbert points out that VMware has been working on this since the summer of 14, including:

to help Docker build a truly scalable system that is enhanced and optimized for the same docker related parts of VMware products, such as networking, storage, and increased support for vfusion in Vsphere,vcloud Air and dockermachine To support rapid start-up of applications on a variety of environments and hosts, and to make vsphere container cluster scheduling easier by extending BDE (Big Data Extensions) technology to support Mesos and kubernetes.

Kitcolbert said: "In this process, we fork a project, called Fargo, which can clone a running VM." This technology was born out of desktop virtualization and is currently being tested. We think this is a huge opportunity. ”

"We are now focused on providing the best IT infrastructure. Computing virtualization, network virtualization, storage technology, and so on, Docker provides a good way to manage applications and deploy resources, but beyond that, the reality is that you still need to provide IT infrastructure for these applications. Software cannot run on software. He believes that the current efforts of Docker and VMware are complementary to each other.

"What really excites us is that we have the potential to achieve a higher level of it automation." The concept of software definition data center we've been talking about it for a long time, and the key elements of IT infrastructure, SLAs, etc. can be defined by software and even APIs. So, we want users to be able to say ' these are the SLAs that my application needs, and as long as they can meet these SLAs, I won't manage IT infrastructure too much because it's all automated '. We think it's great. ”

what will happen in the future

Cohesiveft's CTO, Chris Swan, saw the potential of the Fargo project, that Fargo Project can have both Docker and VM strengths-it delivers lightweight virtualization of similar containers, and can use a variety of Docker container management tools, It also has the security and manageability of a similar VMware product. Swan also points out that there are some kubernetes based services on the market that still use virtual machines to host containers.

Swan said: "There is no large public cloud platform to launch container based services, so you need to focus on some new entrants, such as giant Swarm, to see what will happen." ”

Swan believes VMware is actually committed to providing a converged solution between the enterprise's existing VMware environment and the new public cloud environment. Hashimoto also believes VMware is taking the right path, Hashimoto also mentions CoreOS's Rocket,hashimoto that "in the short term, the integration of container virtualization technology with other technologies is the best solution in the present." But I look forward to see the rapid development of container virtualization technology, a large number of applications. ”

"In the short term, at least in public, VMware can do everything possible to ensure that their hypervisor and virtual machine management tools are the best." In private, they are also trying to create their own container scheme-which is just speculation, but I don't think it's a bad idea, "Hashimoto said."

As of now, the response of VMware is positive and benign, says IDC analyst Chen. "They are trying to embrace the new, even disruptive technology of Docker, which is much better than ignoring or directly denying Docker," he said. Of course, VMware can be said to do this is the general trend, of course, there is a deliberate propaganda part.

"In terms of future development of container technology, VMware may have to deploy more planning and deployment around Docker," Chen said. In addition to having now reached a partnership with Docker, they may also develop their own container products and work around them. ”

They must carefully assess whether they are now at the crossroads of containers and traditional virtual machines.

"VMware does not have its own operating system. It has been competing with some of the operating system vendors that have virtualization technology and hypervisors. In fact, the container technology is essentially more based on the operating system, the operating system level. So if they want to have their own container technology, they may have to have their own operating system, "Chen said.

Swan also pointed out that although the current Docker hot, but it is still in the initial stage, and enterprises are more conservative, looking to avoid risk. "I think that the rapid development of Docker in some degree will affect the application and popularization of Docker in the enterprise." Companies may want to deploy Docker to the production environment, all of which are mature and stable. But I think the future of the enterprise will continue to try to Docker.

A summary of

translators

Conventionally speaking, like all new technologies, Docker and traditional virtualization technologies may coexist for a while and interact with each other at the same time as they evolve. Or "Merry Always by rain blows the wind to blow", or "each lead coquettish 35 years", this is the world normal. But no matter what, the start-up company can still find a piece of snow, find a ramp, pile a snowball.

Original link: Amid Container vs VM Hype, VMware draws Docker Closer (Compile/Shi Haixu revisers/Zhou Xiaolu)

Introduction: Shi Haixu, Cloud Stack technology VP, many years of corporate IT experience. Cloud stack technology is a focus on Docker and other container-like virtualization technology emerging companies. In the Enterprise service domain, provides the Docker and so on container virtualization solution for the enterprise, helps the enterprise to enjoy the new technology to benefit better. If you are interested in this article, you can contact him in the following ways: email: Shx@nicescale.com, micro-signal: HUBERYSHX.

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