I'd like to see Docker succeed. They invented / formalized the space and deserve credit for that. They are probably doing the right thing with some of their development tooling (though maybe that should just be spun off to Microsoft) and ensuring images do not contain badware is something companies will pay for.
However, their core offering must be the leader if they want to survive. Devs must want to use "docker run" instead of "podman run" for example. Docker needs to be the obvious #1 for starting a container on a single machine.
> I'd like to see Docker succeed. They invented / formalized the space and deserve credit for that.
If by succeed, you mean they deserve to have revenue, I disagree.
They spun some cool work out of dotCloud when it failed. They seemed to delay thinking about how they'd monetize the work, and sort of fell into charging for developer tooling after their orchestration play lost to kubernetes.
At this point, I think of Docker the company as a wannabe Oracle. They are desperate for money, and are hoping they can fool you into adopting their tech so they can ransom it from you once you rely on it. If that sounds appealing to you, I'd say go for it.
For me, that situation seems worse than what I do without containers at my disposal. In other words, the solution is worse overall than the problem.
I mean, OCI and containerd exist. You can have "Docker" containers without the Docker just fine. Just need to replace the user tooling, which I assume podman does? (never used it)
> their core offering must be the leader if they want to survive. Devs must want to use "docker run" instead of "podman run"
If their core offering is container hosting, they should be able to make a company out of that even without the client. After all jfrog and cloudsmith are more per less just that, as is github.
However, their core offering must be the leader if they want to survive. Devs must want to use "docker run" instead of "podman run" for example. Docker needs to be the obvious #1 for starting a container on a single machine.