Docker Cloud Ends Cluster Management Services

https://docs.docker.com/docker-cloud/migration/

by adverbly • 8 years ago

7 1 8 years ago

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I'm disappointed that the timeframe is so short but I can't say that I am surprised. The writing has been on the wall for awhile now and I was already looking for alternatives.

The 'Standard' product was shut off abruptly and they tried to shove everyone onto their half-baked swarm mode platform. When users who were happy with the Standard platform (and confused by swarm) fought back, they re-enabled 'Standard' mode as opt-in. Unfortunately all development halted at that point and it has been more or less abandoned for over a year. They stopped providing updates on their managed nodes and stranded all of their users on outdated buggy versions with no way to update.

Also, there was quite literally 0 customer support for even for paying users unless you had contracts with them in the thousands per month.

Its unfortunate. As far as I was concerned, Docker Cloud (Standard, not Swarm) was very close to what I needed. As far as I can tell they got so caught up in battle for orchestration supremacy with Kubernetes that the left a good portion of their user base in the dust.

Perhaps this is a well calculated decision for them as a company, but from an end-users perspective, it feels like they lost their way and abandoned their users.

Anyone have suggestions for good hosted alternatives?

I'm looking for a service that offers:

1. Hosted node management with nice simple UI

2. A dashboard with visual health monitoring for nodes and containers

3. Configurable alerts via email/slack/sms

4. Github / auto-build / CI integration

I'm currently investigating https://nanobox.io but am interested in any other suggestions.

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Docker Cloud Ends Cluster Management Services

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