{"id":16356,"date":"2015-07-31T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=231941"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T10:42:12","slug":"oracle-latest-legacy-firm-to-support-docker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/oracle-latest-legacy-firm-to-support-docker\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle latest legacy firm to support Docker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_191172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/Oracle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-191172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/06\/Oracle-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle is adding support for Docker to Solaris\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle is adding support for Docker to Solaris<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oracle said this week that it would bring Docker support to Solaris, becoming the latest legacy software vendor to add support for the open source Linux container technology.<\/p>\n<p>While Solaris has had support for Linux containers in the form of \u2018Solaris Zones\u2019 (Oracle\u2019s virtual machine technology) for nearly a decade, the move will see Oracle enable Docker to be deployed within those \u2018Zones\u2019 (VMs).<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it plans to make some of its software \u2013 Oracle WebLogic Server was the only one specifically mentioned \u2013 available for deployment and testing as full Docker images on Solaris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement really gives developers the best of both worlds \u2013 access to Oracle Solaris\u2019 enterprise class security, resource isolation and superior analytics with the ability to easily create containers in dev\/test, production and cloud environments,\u201d said Markus Flierl, vice president, Oracle Solaris Core Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntegrating Docker into Oracle Solaris will make that even easier and will help customers benefit from highly integrated compute on premises and in the cloud,\u201d Flierl said.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Lachal, senior analyst, infrastructure solutions at Ovum said the move is a win-win for those planning to move to more cloud-native technologies like OpenStack and Linux containers but still depend heavily on different components of the Oracle stack.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle is the latest legacy software vendor to open up to Docker.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year Windows announced it would support the container technology in Windows Server 2016, around the same time IBM announced it would provide a Docker-based container service through Bluemix, the company\u2019s platform as a service offering.<\/p>\n<p>Given how embedded Oracle is in large organisations the move could see Docker gain more traction in the traditional large enterprise, potentially a big win for the young open source container project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux container technology.<\/p>\n<p>While Solaris has had support for Linux containers in the form of &lsquo;Solaris Zones&rsquo; (Oracle&rsquo;s virtual machine technology) for nearly a decade, the move will see Oracle enable Docker to be deployed within those &lsquo;Zones&rsquo; (VMs).<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it plans to make some of its software &ndash; Oracle WebLogic Server was the only one specifically mentioned &ndash; available for deployment and testing as full Docker images on Solaris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1871,3132,1976,337,1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docker","category-markus-flierl","category-news-analysis","category-open-source","category-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16357,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356\/revisions\/16357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}