As long as with Docker For Mac and Windows, the Docker team started working on the new generation toolsets for operators: Docker for AWS and Docker for Windows. These are intended to provide a taste of automatic for deploying Docker infrastructures, especially Swarm-ready ones.
The goals are to provide with a standard way of doing things, integrating the underlying infrastructure with the Docker tools and let people to run, with no effort, the latest software versions on the platform they love. The ultimate goal is really to let developers to move things from their laptops with Docker for Mac/Windows to the cloud, with Docker for AWS/Azure.
The user experience is, as always in the Docker ecosystem, great. The requirements are:
An AWS ID
An SSH key imported into your AWS keyring
Ready security groups
Basically, Docker for AWS is a clickable template for CloudForms. CloudForms is the orchestration system for AWS, which allows to create templates of complex...