Docker Ecosystem

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Docker – Sector Overview

• Over $100M invested •  12 investments in total

– 10 investments in the last 12 months

• Most active investors – Accel Partners (ClusterHQ, Weave) – Benchmark (Docker, dotCloud) – Trinity Ventures (Docker, dotCloud) – SV Angel (Docker, dotCloud)

•  Industry Buzz – Google Launches Private Docker Repositories For Cloud Platform Users (TC, Jan 2015) – Docker and Microsoft partner to bring container applications across platforms (Microsoft, Oct 2014) – ClusterHQ Raises $12M Series A Round To Expand Its Container Data Management Service (TC, Feb 2015)

ITOpsDocker container products and services for DevOps.

PlatformDeployment and Management of apps build on Docker container.

Docker Ecosystem – Market MapDevOps

Docker container products and services for DevOps. PaaS

Deploy and manage applications from hosted platforms. Eg. OrchardUp

Container Management Management of Docker images and containers. Eg. StackEngine

Microservices Testing Testing and mock on containers before integrating into Microservices architecture. Eg. Dockpit

Microservices PaaS solution for management of Microservice applications based on Docker. Eg. GiantSwarm

Data Volume Data volume management for Docker apps. Eg. ClusterHQ

App Deployment DevOps solutions for App deployment in Docker. Eg. Panamax

Infrastructure Eg. Rancher Labs

Image Repository Registry of Docker images. Eg. Quay.

Networking Creates virtual network of connected container across multiple hosts. Eg. Weave, SockerPlane

Container Development at Container level. Eg. Tutum

Application Development at Application level. Eg. Deis, Flynn

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Continuous Integration Tools for continuous integration of application. Eg. Shippable, Drone

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Container TechnologyLayer of abstraction of OS-Level virtualization on LXC. Eg. Docker Inc.

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Docker[San Francisco, 2008] is an open-source tool that packages an application and its dependencies in a virtual container that can run on any Linux server. Docker Hub is a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows. Provides PaaS and professional support under the dotCloud brand. Acquired Duostack, a PaaS for Node and Ruby applications, in May 2011 and introduced support for MongoDB. Docker’s GitHub Profile – 12,178 stars, 2,050 forks. Has 455 contributors. Since their launch, they have achieved total downloads of 2.75 million Docker Engine. Users include companies like eBay, Cloudflare, Rackspace, Yandex and Spotify.

$65.8M

Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Benchmark, Trinity Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, and Sequoia Capital.

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Tutum[New York, 2013] provides a platform for container management. Docker users can link the AWS or Digital ocean account and can build, deploy and manage the containers. Provides a Container Orchestration service to automatically manage and scale cloud infrastructure, and provide a platform on which to build, deploy and manage containerized applications. DevOps can deploy applications by linking containers across different hosts and data centers, also features zero downtime on application by providing hot deployment. A Techstar alumnus.

$2.6M RTP Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Techstars, Start-Up Chile, NXTP Labs

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Deis[Boulder, 2013] combines Linux container technology with infrastructure automation to create a private PaaS designed for both developers and operations engineers. Enables developers to deploy and scale applications with ease while retaining complete control over infrastructure, routing and container management. Deis is built upon Docker and CoreOS with a Heroku-inspired workflow.

$1M

CityHawk

Flynn[Austin, 2013] is a platform that ops can provide to developers to power production, testing, and development. Flynn components are divided into two layers - Layer 0 is a low-level resource framework including service discovery inspired by the Google Omega paper, Layer 1 is a set of higher level components that makes it easy to deploy, maintain, and scale applications and databases. Allows self-serve management of containerized deployments. 100% free and open source. Has raised $80k from 14 sponsors including Coinbase, Shopify, Nebula, CenturyLink, Scout. Its source is available on GitHub and has received 2,225 stars and 106 forks (Aug 2014). Part of Y Combinator S14 batch. Designed, built and managed by Prime Directive, Inc. Raised $100k using crowdfunding. Launched first alpha release in April 2014, in first beta as of Aug 2014. Raising a round of venture capital funding as stated on their website. 

Food Mafia Dokku[Austin, 2014] enables web developers to run single-host PaaS which is directly compatible with Heroku. Dokku is used for smaller deployments in comparison to Deis or Flynn which requires minimum 3 hosts for the application. Sponsored and recommended by Deis(Nov 2014).

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DCHQ[San Francisco, 2014] is a developer platform to accelerate container-based application development for large-scale enterprises. Provides on-demand, self-service access to Docker-based application environments running on the DCHQ cloud, or on any registered datacenter using an agent-based architecture for orchestration. Also facilitates collaboration for large-scale enterprises allowing teams to customize access to data centers, images and running containers in support of continuous integration processes within or across different development teams.

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DotCloud[San Francisco, 2008] is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container. Merged with Docker in Oct 2013, and now provides PaaS services for Docker. Docker sold dotCloud to berlin based cloudControl in August 2014.

$10.8M Benchmark, Trinity Ventures, SV Angel, Y Combinator

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Stackdock[Dublin, 2013] is a hosted Docker-as-a-Service, on dedicated servers with SSDs. Starting from $5/month for 20GB SSD and 1GB RAM. Developers have to build a Dockerfile using Stackdock's wizard and add required services. Then they can turn the Dockerfile into verified images and add users, and deploy container based on the image. Upgrading their platform as of Aug 2014. Product of Copper.io(Acquired by LXVentures), launched in Nov 2013. 

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OrchardUp[London, 2013] allows to prefix any command with orchard docker run and the name of a Docker image, and you can run it in the cloud as if it were on your local machine. Hosts are fully isolated from each other, and all communication between the Docker client and the host is secured using SSL client certificates. Also support the Docker remote API, so all tools built for Docker also work with Orchard. Was acquired by Docker because of the work that they did on Fig, which is for developer environments - composing and orchestrating applications

Food Mafia

Cygnus[Palo Alto, 2014] is currently in stealth mode and building a PaaS solution for web scale container based application development on hosted bare metal. Features include scaling of container with projected petabytes of storage and hundreds of SQL nodes without changes in code. Cygnus is claimed to be a stack of Docker, PostgresSQL, Distributed Persistent Storage, Enterprise Security, Automation & Management on Bare Metal.

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Zomato MyOdc[2014] is a microservices ecosystem. Users can launch cluster as a service with Kubernetes on multiple cloud platforms. Currently in stealth beta mode, limited information available.

Foodspotting

Giant Swarm[Cologne, 2014], build on Docker as its core technology, enables to develop, deploy, and host Microservices applications. Features faster app deployment by plugging together different polyglot Microservices which are scalable with integrated autoscaling and rollout. Currently in closed Alpha, only available through invite.

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Drone.io[San Francisco, 2012] is a Continuous Integration as-a-service build on Docker, Amazon EC2 using the Go programming language, and customized Linux kernel virtualization. Features integration with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code; & support for 16+ languages. Pricing starts at $25/month, open source version is free to use without any private project.

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Shippable[Bellevue, 2013] helps teams ship software faster by giving them a virtual build, test, and deployment environment in the cloud. Offered features include GitHub signin, support for multiple languages/platforms, cross-platform, build history and artifacts, granular permission model, integrated code quality tools like code coverage and trend visualization. Built on Docker, and is 3x faster than other competing products build on VM. It is part of the TechStars Seattle 2013 cohort. Shippable provides 5 private repositories for free, pricing starts at $10/month.

$10.05M

Divergent Ventures, Vulcan, Inc., Madrona Venture Group, Founder's Co-op, SK Ventures, Techstars.

Food Mafia

PhantomCI[Stroudsburg, UK, 2015] is a Continuous Integration as-a-service build on Docker. Offers SSD optimized hardware and complete integration with GItHub featuring support for Ruby/Rails, PHP/Laravel, NodeJS/Express and Go programming languages. Priced at $0.5/passing-build.

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Zomato

Dockpit[Delft, Netherland, 2014] is used for docker based microservice architecture. Increases productivity while developing micro-services , and achieves this by providing two functionalities: pit mock - Mock the dependencies for the current service based on the specification in the current directory and create an isolated environment using docker (based on the DOCKER_HOST env variable); and pit test - Using the isolated environment to black-box test the current service against the specification. Based out of Netherland.

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Panamax[Monroe, 2014] is a containerized app creator with an open-source app marketplace hosted in GitHub. Provides a user-friendly interface for users of Docker, Fleet & CoreOS. Users can deploy multi-container and multi-host applications with drag and drop features on Panamax interface. Also provides docker application templates for easy deployment. Panamax is created by Centurylink labs.

$45K Alchemist Accelerator

Chefs Feed

Boot2Docker[Portland, 2014] is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV). Build as fastest way to boot to Docker, Other OS like CoreOS is targeted at building infrastructure and distributed systems. Currently available for installation on Mac OS and Windows. Boot2Docker is maintained by developers of Fig and OrchardUp & other developers at Docker.io. 

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Zett.io[London, 2014] has developed the Weave project, meant to address Docker's networking issue by providing Docker containers with a single virtual network even if they are on different host. Provides a strong feature set with security, resilience, and multicloud support for virtual network. Applications use the network just as if the containers were all plugged into the same network switch, with no need to configure port mappings, and links. Services provided by application containers on the weave network can be made accessible to the outside world, regardless of where those containers are running. Similarly, existing internal systems can be exposed to application containers irrespective of their location.         

$5M Accel Partners

Food Mafia Socketplane[Palo Alto, 2014] is an open source software-defined networking tool native to docker. Brings together Open vSwitch and Docker to provide pragmatic Software-Defined Networking for container-based clouds. Also packages all components of solution in Docker containers. Limited information available, out of stealth in October 2014.

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Zomato

Docknet[San Francisco, 2014] Currently in stealth mode, Docknet is a container distribution system for docker containers based on docker, etcd and pipework for multi-host networking for apps. Each host has an etcd daemon running providing access to a shared configuration among the hosts. The configuration consists of two data sets of Containers and Map.Limited information available.

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xDocker[Houston, 2014] enables Docker users to Deploy, Manage and Monitor Docker images on any IaaS/On-Premise or on any infrastructure. xDocker is an open-source application which provides open source backend orchestration and frontend application code. Users can select and configure the images defining instance, size, ports, security keys and groups; which can deployed on desired infrastructure and further managed using xDocker dashboard. The Docker images which are used for dockerizing also are open sourced and made available on Docker hub repository. A part of the Xervmon Cloud management suite.

Chefs Feed

Crane[London, 2014] provides Harbormaster, a continuous delivery software that helps organizations lift, ship, deploy and manage modern containerized applications. Features the controls that ensure secure movement of Docker containers for deployment providing Continuous Delivery pipelines, metrics on where containers are running and container's data (applications and versions). Crane helps deploy docker images to multiple targets and inject environment differences, providing visualization dashboards, audit reports, rollback and comparison of containers. Supports hybrid cloud implementations with enterprise class security, controls and compliance.

CityHawk

Stackengine[Austin, 2014] provides Docker image & container manager for IT Operations from a dashboard. Helps pull docker image from public or private repository and launch it on multiple hosts and configure the memory requirement for each container. Can also set up a management mesh for controlling the container on multiple hosts with updated information on number of hosts, images and containers status. Features troubleshooting the container memory or configuration issues along with complete control to run images, remove or stop a container, also provides individual container configuration and search among the mesh.

$1M

LiveOak Venture Partners, Silverton Partners

Food Mafia

Shipyard[Indianapolis, 2013], built on the Docker cluster management toolkit Citadel, features the ability to manage Docker resources including containers and hosts. At the core, Shipyard only manages Containers. However, using Extension Images, Docker users can add functionality such as application routing and load balancing, centralized logging and deployment. Shipyard project is open source.

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Zomato

Spanner[Atlanta, 2014] is used to manage Docker containers deployments. Features Hardware configurations, launching containers from public or private repositories, management of launched container instances and maintaining container inventory across host servers and applications. Currently in beta mode and available free.

Foodspotting

Decking[Leeds, UK, 2014] aims to simplify the creation, organization and running of clusters of Docker containers by reading information from a decking.json package file on a project by project basis. Decking simplifies the building of images based on local Dockerfiles and helps developers create and orchestrate containers. Decking is currently free to use and available on github.

Chefs Feed

Project Atomic[Part of RedHat, 2014] integrates the tools and patterns of container-based application and service deployment with operating system platforms providing end-to-end hosting architecture. Provides Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Atomic Hosts.

CityHawk Dockerboard[Quanzhou, China, 2014] is a dashboard for management of Docker containers. Developed by Dockerpool China. Build with Angular JS, Angular Material design and D3 JS. Limited information available.

Food Mafia Containership.io[San Francisco, 2014] is used to build, deploy, and manage applications using Docker containers. Helps build a new Docker image from a git push, and automatically deploys to one or more servers. Currently in stealth mode.

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Zomato Dockerana[2014] provides Docker monitoring with support for Grafana and Graphite. Dockerana is coded in GO and features time series docker instrumentation and visualization tested as drop-in on Ubuntu. Reports pending test on boot2docker. Currently available on Github for free.Winner of Dockercon Hackathon 2014.

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Dockerize.it[Madrid, 2013] provides a cloud management platform for docker hosts. Provide best practices and power tools like service discovery, rolling updates and ambassadors. Currently in Beta Mode.

Chefs Feed

Rancher[San Francisco, 2014] is an open source project that provides infrastructure services designed specifically for Docker. Rancher makes AWS-like functions, such as EBS, VPC, ELB and Security Groups, available and consistent across servers running locally or in cloud. Developers can leverage Rancher infrastructure using native Docker APIs and tools. Commands to Rancher are issued directly from the Docker API, and both the management plane and the runtime services are deployed as Docker containers.

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ClusterHQ[Bristol, 2008] provides Flocker,  data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool for easy database portability. With it docker user can control data using the same tools as for stateless applications by harnessing the power of ZFS on Linux. Users can run databases, queues and key-value stores in Docker and move them around as easily as the rest of the app. Flocker is currently Version 0.1 and launched in 2014.

$12M Accel Partners, Canaan Partners

Food Mafia

Pachyderm[Mountain View, 2015] is an open source MapReduce engine that uses Docker containers for distributed computations. From the Hadoop stack Pachyderm will replace HDFS with its own distributed file system, JVM process engine with Docker and MapReduce with Pachyderm MapReduce. Given Pachyderm a Docker image it will automatically distribute it throughout the cluster next to data. Pachyderm uses CoreOS tools Fleet and Etcd for job scheduling and cluster resouce management.

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Quay.io[New York, 2012] is a private repository hosting service. Quay’s repositories are the virtual boxes containing Docker images, users can host their application’s source code and related ingredients inside the cloud-based repository and can also choose to have in-house hosting. Quay provides complete information regarding a particular image including its layers, parent image and respective ID. Features integration with Github where Docker users can provide Dockerfiles and the image for this dockerfile is automatically build on cloud by Quay. Users can also provide access token with read-only, read & write control as well as make the repository public. Using APIs, the private repositories can communicate with the Docker platform in order to make containers based on the stored Docker images. CoreOS acquired Quay to offer Enterprise repository solutions.

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Reesd[Jambes, 2013] is private docker repository services. Dockers user can tag the images appropriately while build and push/pull from/to reesd repository. Images are protected by the same password for Reesd's account. A redundant storage service and is accessible through the standard scp command-line program. Developed by Hypered, a belgian software and consulting firm. Pricing is based on storage space starting from 20€/10GB.

Chefs Feed

Flockport[Mumbai, 2014] provides LXC images of apps with full stack for end-to-end development. A Linux container-sharing website providing web stacks and applications in containers that can be deployed in any Linux environment in a simple, predictable and easy way. Developers can scale application workload with fine-grained control on container usage, along with networking of containers with multiple configuration support.

CityHawk Shipway[Mountain View, 2014] features creation of Docker repository from GitHub repositories. Also configures a GitHub webhook publishing a Docker image automatically after each push. Currently in beta mode and available free.

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