While containerization technology has actually existed for a few years (many credit Google engineers with having developed the first fully functional implementations), almost immediately after Docker deployed its implementation as part of a PaaS platform for cloud-based software deployment, containers moved from hobby projects to critical mass. Hassle-free portability is key to Docker’s huge and sudden success. While the VMs that VirtualBox manages by itself are typically virtual PCs with client-side operating systems or virtual servers, Kitematic enables VirtualBox to run Docker containers straight from their packages. Kitematic is designed to be paired with Oracle’s VirtualBox, arguably the most widely distributed platform for hosting virtual machines on individual devices. At the time of this writing, Kitematic had amassed 2,610 GitHub star points. The latest release version of Kitematic for Mac OS is officially on version 0.4.5, with pre-releases up to v. A port of the Kitematic UI to Windows is set for May or June. That private image feature, according to Kitematic’s roadmap, is planned for this month. “In the short term, we’re targeting towards Windows, to have Kitematic run on Windows as well as have it pull private images from the Docker hub.” “We have an open source roadmap on our GitHub repo,” Li tells us. In an interview with The New Stack, Kitematic co-founder Sean Li said he and his team plan to put the Docker investment to good use, building a new version of its UI for Windows. announced Thursday it is acquiring Kitematic, a startup producer of an open source container management UI for Mac OS, launched in the summer of 2013. In yet another signal of how rapidly the server platform landscape is being dramatically repainted, Docker, Inc.
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