Docker's success stories

Docker made enterprises life easy, applications can now be contained and easily shipped across hosts and distributed with less friction between teams. Docker Hub today offers 450,000 images publicly available for reuse. A few of the famous ones are ngnix web server, Ubuntu, Redis, swarm, MySQL, and so on. Each one is downloaded by more than 10 million users. Docker Engine has been downloaded 4 billion times so far and still growing. Docker has enormous community support with 2,900 community contributors and 250 meet up groups. Docker is now available on Windows and Macintosh. Microsoft officially supports Docker through its public cloud platform Azure.

eBay, a major e-commerce giant, uses Docker to run their same day delivery business. eBay uses Docker in their continuous integration (CI) process. Containerized applications can be easily moved from a developer's laptop to test and then production machines seamlessly. Docker also enables the application to run alike on developer machines and also on production instances.

ING, a global finance services organization, faced nightmares with constant changes required to its monolithic applications built using legacy technologies. Implementing each change involved a laborious process of going through 68 documents to move a change to production. ING integrated Docker into its continuous delivery platform, which provided more automation capabilities for test and deployment, optimized utilization, reduced hardware costs, and saved time.