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Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’.

We’ll be looking at The Four this week in the exegesis podcast. Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• Got my Apple iBooks pay-day!
• It was $1.14.
• For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money.
• Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that?

• Docker adds in support, official web-page with burger and brief value-props, and over at The New Stack.
• Now we can all just start The Battle of Death by a Thousand Value-props. E.g., hittin’ up that security angle hard-core, talking about easily migrate-n-save for existing apps.
• Dave Bartoletti, Forrester: ‘said it's clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. "There's too much mindshare around it," he said in a phone interview with The Register. "There are too many developers who just want this.”’…”Bartoletti said he expects vendors will try to move up the stack by providing security, integration, workflow, and managed services. He said Docker now will be free to focus on trying to be the best container platform for enterprises.”
• Looks like Bartoletti was the analyst sent around, he shows up in other coverage.
• Derrick Harris’s take: “The problem is that it’s difficult to make enterprise sales when users want open source at the lower layers and to pay (real money, at least) at layers they deem more strategic. If that’s Kubernetes, then Docker either needs to support it commercially, or let someone else take all the revenue from the orchestration layer up while Docker keeps on spending money to keep the free part of the puzzle chugging. By supporting Kubernetes as part of Docker Enterprise, it now can make the argument that nobody understands containers better than Docker does, and there’s now no real reason to not pay for its enterprise version.”
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