One of the things I've found interesting about rapidly popular opensource solutions in the last 1-2 years is how quickly venture cap funding comes in and drives the direction of future development.
Docker has a whole ecosystem of bolt-on github projects that fill-gaps that the Docker project hasn't had time themselves to fill because they are too busy organising conferences, withholding features until the keynote of said conference, and working out how to spend the millions of dollars on future development.
So Docker are on this tightrope trying to innovate whilst avoiding stepping on the toes of their VC-funded 'partners', so their response was simple-core with a plugin framework for partners to integrate into. Anyone else picturing fragmentation in 6-12 months time?
Docker has a whole ecosystem of bolt-on github projects that fill-gaps that the Docker project hasn't had time themselves to fill because they are too busy organising conferences, withholding features until the keynote of said conference, and working out how to spend the millions of dollars on future development.
Even the gap-filler github projects are getting VC funding (see http://weaveblog.com/2014/12/03/announcing-weaveworks-and-ou...). Weave will either become the standard networking stack, or be made irrelevant by an in-tree featureful implementation.
So Docker are on this tightrope trying to innovate whilst avoiding stepping on the toes of their VC-funded 'partners', so their response was simple-core with a plugin framework for partners to integrate into. Anyone else picturing fragmentation in 6-12 months time?