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Docker has racked up another acquisition:\u00a0Tutum, a service for delivering Docker containers into production on nearly any cloud or host.<\/p>\n

Scott Jonston, senior vice president of product for Docker, cited user control of the \u201clast mile of the app delivery pipeline\u201d \u2014 the route from development into production \u2014 as the main reason for picking up Tutum.<\/p>\n

Docker\u2019s previous acquisitions, including Orchard\u00a0and\u00a0Kitematic, produced tools designed for easier Docker management. The same philosophy is at work with Tutum, but this time Docker is acquiring an entire service, not simply a piece of software, and merging it with Docker\u2019s branded offerings.<\/p>\n

Tutum\u2019s deployment systems can be accessed through a GUI, a command-line interface, or a RESTful API that hooks into the existing public Docker APIs. The services include provisioning, deployment, and management of existing containers (monitoring, logging, rotating, and updating). Theoretically, any hosting environment will work, though Tutum explicitly notes support for\u00a0Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, and SoftLayer.<\/p>\n

The process of delivering a container to production has remained\u00a0unpolished in the Docker ecosystem since its inception, said Johnston. Many customers cobbled together several solutions to navigate this last stage of deployment \u2014 \u201ccustom scripts, glue code, or even manually jumping on the command line\u201d \u2014 and using yet another patchwork of tools for monitoring and logging.<\/p>\n

Docker gravitated toward Tutum, according to Johnston, because three characteristics had stood out over the course of the two companies\u2019 collaboration: \u201cvery, very thoughtful product development and product experiences,\u201d with an emphasis on a strong user experience, and a team that shared Docker\u2019s vision about how to build, ship, and run apps.<\/p>\n

Before formally relocating Tutum\u2019s team to Docker\u2019s HQ, estimated to take about a year, Tutum\u2019s services will be integrated with Docker Hub.<\/p>\n

One likely criticism of the acquisition, especially in light of Tutum\u2019s services being made part and parcel of Docker:\u00a0Would competing solutions suffer as Tutum is presented as a default for deployment?\u00a0Johnston acknowledged that Tutum will be a part of the core Docker team, but other options for deployment and management will remain available.<\/p>\n