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Former Oracle Cloud exec Don Johnson takes over as Docker's new CEO | TechCrunch

Docker's new CEO is former Oracle Cloud exec Don Johnson | TechCrunch

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Constant CEO turnover? Bringing in a AWS/Oracle Executive? RIP Docker.
- It's a big club of scabs shuffling between the ever diminishing number of umbrella corporations and their subsidiaries, who already own every market and supply chain.
  It's like IT. When they do their job competently you don't notice much, but when they're an incompetent narcissist they can insta-destroy everything.
This sounds bad for Docker if this guy was helping helm Oracle to where it is today.
- He didn't helm Oracle. He ran Oracle Cloud... much worse.
I have already started switching to podman.
The exciting thing about bringing in someone from outside the organization to take on a leading role is that they have no idea how anything fucking works and never really care.
So… Is there an alternative to docker?
- Podman
  
  The Docker runtime is probably ok as it is a tool instead of a community. The registry has a community aspect and is where we'll likely see exploitation of vendor lock in. Luckily Docker was grounded well and you can set up your own registry.
- https://devenv.sh/
  Note this also builds oci compatible containers you can run with podman, kubernetes, etc.
  It lets you develop on bare metal in an environment the same as the docker container and is reproducible rather than just repeatable.
I'm never buying those pants again.
His music album in the 80’s was straight fire

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