Docker
The Docker organization was the primary contributor to the OCI specs. They were early participants in the Container movement and quickly forged partnerships that elevated their platform as a de facto standard. However, to ensure a vibrant community around the idea of Container architectures, they joined with other industry leaders, including Red Hat (2013), Microsoft, Amazon, IBM (2014), and Oracle (2015), to formalize the utility of Containers in the OCI at Linux Foundation.
As a company, Docker has manifested its own set of Container-related products. These include the following:
- Docker Engine – a high-level Container runtime platform, incorporating a fully OCI-compliant low-level Container runtime (specifically,
runc). - Docker Hub – a Cloud-based registry to centrally store Containers to be distributed and run on any (OCI-compliant) Container runtime. The Docker Hub implements the OCI
distribution-spec. - Docker Desktop – a GUI-based tool...
