2 years ago

Category: Kubernetes, Docker, apple

Here we are, a week later, and it would seem that Docker Desktop is still very much on everyone’s mind. After Docker decided that it might attempt to actually make money off of one of its most popular products by charging companies with more than 250 employees and annual revenue greater than $10M, much of the internet showed just how entitled it was with complaints of Docker’s so-called “bait and switch” among other complaints.

Meanwhile, it looks like the Podman team is taking this all into consideration, and discussing whether or not Podman should offer a Podman Desktop for Windows, Linux and Mac, writing that “several requests have been received via Twitter, IRC, email, and other sources, to provide a Podman Desktop application similar to the one that Docker provides.”

Docker, meanwhile, put out a blog post this week explaining the magic behind the scenes of Docker Desktop and an attempt to show that Docker Desktop is more than simply a graphical user interface (GUI) for containers.

The question remains, as it did last week, whether or not companies will be willing to pay for Docker Desktop or will make the leap to some alternative, whether Podman (as is in vogue this week) or any of the other alternatives.