Comment by shykes
7 hours ago
None of those things were obstacles to commercialization. None of them were common requests from enterprise customers except private registries, which Docker did build.
Podman has never been commercialized.
Docker's difficulties in commercializing were self-inflicted. Enterprise and open source teams were culturally siloed and as a result the enterprise products were not "native". There was a lack of focus and a "checkbox" approach to building product. There was no singular "dictator" who could enforce a coherent product design and vision, and it showed. etc.
I was a DotCloud user before Docker, and I remember keenly thinking - “oh, is that how they went from hosting only PHP to any language/stack?”
I always assumed it was the same internal tech, now productized. Then of course, it became THE tech, overtaking vagrant and anything else for local development and deployment. The latter was the true money shot. Server runs exactly what you test with locally.