Now, the client is neatly packaged as an OS X app and uses the underlying framework to bring up Linux containers at the flutter of your fingers on the keyboard in a terminal. Previously, you had to use Docker with Oracle's VirtualBox, but it was a rather clunky setup and relied on Oracle not screwing around with VBox. The OS X client uses Apple's builtin hypervisor framework – yeah, Apple quietly embedded a hypervisor API in its desktop operating system. The clients allow you to easily and seamlessly fetch, craft and fire up Docker containers on your laptop or workstation. After its tires were thoroughly kicked, and the crashes ironed out, the code is now available for all to experiment with. DockerCon Docker will kick off its DockerCon 2016 conference in Seattle this morning with a bunch of announcements: its OS X and Windows Docker clients will be made publicly available as beta software for anyone to try out out-of-the-box orchestration is coming to Docker 1.12 and integration with Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure is in the works.įirst off, the OS X and Windows clients: these were available to about 70,000 developers as a private beta you had to ask nicely for access to the software.
