They offer CS Docker Engine to Ubuntu users

Dec 2, 2016 04:13 GMT  ·  By

On the last day of November 2016, Canonical and Docker announced a new commercial agreement that promises to provide integrated enterprise support and SLAs for CS Docker Engine to the Ubuntu Linux community.

The two companies are announcing the availability of an integrated CS (Commercially Supported) Docker Engine offering on the Ubuntu platform, which enables Canonical to provide its customers with a single path of support for both the CS Docker Engine and Ubuntu Linux operating system in enterprise Docker operations.

"Through our partnership, we provide users with more choice by bringing the agility, portability, and security benefits of the Docker CS engine to the larger Ubuntu community," said Nick Stinemates, Vice President, Business Development and Technical Alliances at Docker.

Ubuntu customers can now take advantage of the official Docker support

The new partnership between Docker and Canonical lets Ubuntu customers take advantage of the official Docker support as well, which users of other GNU/Linux distributions can't access at the moment of writing this article. As such, new stable releases of the Docker engine will be published and maintained by Docker as Snaps.

These Snap packages of Docker will be pushed upstream by Docker for users of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or any other version of the popular operating system that integrates support for installing Snaps, enabling direct access to the official build of the Docker app container engine for all Ubuntu users.

"The combination of Ubuntu and Docker is popular for scale-out container operations, and this agreement ensures that our joint user base has the fastest and easiest path to production for CS Docker Engine devops," said John Zannos, Vice President of Cloud Alliances and Business Development, Canonical.

According to Canonical and Docker, Ubuntu is a very popular devops platform in container-centric environments, so the need for fast and maintained Docker releases is increasing with each day that passes. The latest Snappy technologies add an extra layer of security to the distribution of new Docker releases on Ubuntu.

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