 Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE. Covering DockerCon 2017, brought to you by Docker and support from its ecosystem partners. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and this is SiliconANGLE Media's TheCube. We're the worldwide leader in enterprise tech coverage. Happy to be coming to you from DockerCon 2017 here in the Austin Convention Center of Crosscourse in Austin, Texas. My host for the next two days will be Jim Kobielus. Jim, thank you so much for joining us. It's great to join the team. All right, so we'll get to you in a second, Jim, but first of all, it is the fourth year of the DockerCon show. Docker, the company, just celebrated its fourth year of existence, CEO Ben Golub, started off the keynote, founder, CTO, chief product guy, Solomon Hikes, introduced a bunch of open source initiatives, did a bunch of demos. The first DockerCon event back in 2014, I actually had the pleasure of attending. It was my favorite show of that year. Got to hear some of these hyperscale guys talk about how they were using containers, how Google spins up and spins down two billion containers in a week. And there were about 400 people there and Docker, the company, was 42 people. Fast forward to where we are today in 2017. Docker, the company is, I believe it's 320 people. There's over 5,500 people here. You can see them all streaming in behind me here as the keynote just let out. So we've got two full days here of coverage. This morning we're going to go through a little bit of the news, talk about who we're going to cover. But first of all, I want to introduce you to Jim Cabilis. So John Furrier sends his regards to the community. He's real sorry he couldn't make it out, just had some things came up the last minute so he couldn't come, but stepping in for him with lots of knowledge and experiences. Jim, so Jim, please, for our audience that hasn't gotten a chance to see, you did some intro videos with our crew out in our 4,500 square foot Palo Alto studio at the beginning of the month, but why don't you tell them what brought you to the SiliconANGLE Media team, your background and what you're going to be doing. Great, yeah, thanks, Stu. Yeah, I've joined just recently in the last few weeks. I am a Wikibon's lead analyst for application development, as well as data science and deep learning. I treat data science and the development of artificial intelligence as a huge and really one of the predominant developer themes now in the business world. And really much of that that's going on in business in terms of development of AI applications is in the form of microservices in containerized format for deployment out to multi-clouds and increasingly serverless computing environments. So I am totally pumped and excited to be at DockerCon and there were some great announcements this morning. I was very impressed that this community is making great progress, both on the sheer complexity and sophistication of the ecosystem, but just the amount of support for Docker technology, for Kubernetes and so forth, for the full range of technologies that enable containerized application development, hot stuff. Yeah, Jim, and you talked about things like community and ecosystem and that was definitely the theme year, day one. Docker did some changing in their packaging since we were at the show last year. They now have Docker CE, which is the community edition, focused on the developers. And today was developer day. Everything, I'm pretty sure everything that was announced today is open source. It's in there, it's in the free version. I expect tomorrow we'll probably hear about more about EE. It's the enterprise edition. A question I know we all have is, how is the monetization of what Docker's doing progressing? The president analyst dinner last night, I heard from a Docker employee and said, look, we all understand we're in the early days of the monetization of Docker, but Solomon this morning said, really, the success of Docker, the company is tied directly to the ecosystem. We've got Microsoft coming on today. We've got Cisco, Oracle, lots of partners coming on this week talk about what Docker's doing, what's happening in open source, is going to help a broad ecosystem and all, not just the developers, but enterprises and the companies. So Jim, what are you looking at this week? What are you hoping to come out of? What grabbed you from the keynote this morning? Well, grabbing from the keynote this morning is the maturation of the containerized Docker ecosystem, in the form of greater portability in terms of the Linux kid announcement, we'll get to that later, as well as greater customization capabilities of the Moby project. This is just milestones in the development and maturation of a truly robust ecosystem of innovation. Really, what Docker's all about now that it's a real platforms company is helping its partners to be raving successes in this rapidly expanding marketplace. So that's what I see the chief themes so far today. And it's interesting, one of the things we've always looked at at Docker is like, what does the open source community do? What does the company do? What's the co-op petition play? Two years ago at the show in San Francisco, there was taking the container runtime and really making sure that's open source. You had the Coro West guys and the Docker guys hugging. I got a picture of Ben Gallup and Alex Povey standing together and it was like, oh, okay, that little cold war was over. The Linux kit is something we're going to look at. They lined up some really good partners. We got Intel, Microsoft, HPE, and IBM. But we're going to talk to Red Hat and Canonical and see what they think about this because from the Linux guys, I've been hearing for the last couple of years where Linux really is containers. It's all just something that sits on top of containers, of course, there's the window variant now too, but just by your Linux containers comes with it and now we say, oh, we've got Linux kit, which is I'm going to have a distribution that's fast optimized for containers that Docker and that ecosystem they're building is going to do. So. It's everywhere. I mean, Ben Gallup laid it out or maybe it was Solomon this morning. Containers are really the predominant packaging of applications, large and small, across increasingly not just traditional enterprise and consumer applications, but also the internet of things. So, internet of things and the development of AI for the IoT is a huge theme that I'm focusing on in my coverage for Wikibon. I see a fair amount of enablers for that here. And Jim, and absolutely, there was a big slide with Docker will be where you need to be. So, whether you're in the public cloud, of course, there's container services from, we've got Amazon ECS right here. You've got what's going on with Google and their containers, Microsoft Azure of course. So there's so many pieces. So a lot we're going to go through, we've got a full slate of interviews. Of course, everybody can watch here on SiliconANGLE TV. If you want to participate in social conversation, John Furrier has actually been banging away. It's crowdchat.net slash dockercon is where we're having some of the social conversation. Of course, you can always reach out. I'm just still on Twitter. Jim is James Kabilis, which you'll see on the lower third when we put him up here is where he is on Twitter. If you're at the Expo Hall, you'll see the Expo Halls behind us. We're just in the corner of the Expo Hall. Going to be here for two days. Jim, I want to give you the final word on our intro here. Come to the end of the day. What do you hope to have walked away with? Well, I hope to walk away with a more rich and nuanced understanding of this ecosystem and the differentiators among the dozens upon dozens of companies here, partners of Docker. Really what I see is a huge growth of the Kubernetes segment in terms of orchestration, scaling of cluster management for all things to do with, not just Docker, but really container D, which of course Docker recently open sourced, this core container engine. I think this is totally exciting to see the vast range of specialty vendors in the providing tools to help you harden your containerized microservices environment for your cloud native computing requirements. That's what I hope to take away. I'm going to walk these halls when I'm not physically on the cube and talk to these vendors here. Exciting stuff, innovation. Yeah, absolutely. And you have so many pieces there, Jim. You mentioned Kubernetes, of course. There is that little bit of, do I use Docker Swarm or do I use Kubernetes? Docker, of course, would like you to use Swarm. That's what they're, there's a big growing, you know. And in fact, that was an excellent discussion this morning about Swarm's advantages as well. I don't want to make it sound like I'm totally shifting towards Kubernetes in terms of my preferences. Clearly, it's a highly innovative and dynamic space. So Docker is making some serious investments and beefing up their entire enterprise stack. Including Swarm. Where I wanted to go actually with that is the Moby project actually is one of those things I saw as a nice maturation of what we hear from Docker. For the first couple of years, Docker said batteries are included but swappable, which means things like Swarm, we're going to bake it in there, but you can use an alternative. So you want to use Kubernetes, go ahead and that's fine. And Moby has allowed them to take all the components that are open source, inside Docker can work on them, people outside can collaborate them. Much more modular. Reminds me of how when we talk about how development teams work. It's those two pizza teams, Docker has them internal, they're pulling more people in. How is that open source collaboration going to span? Scalability I think is the word that I heard over and over again in the keynote. Scaling of the company, scaling of the product, scaling of the ecosystem. So something we're interested to see. We've been scaling our operations and we've got two full days here of coverage. So make sure to stay with theCUBE for everything we've got here and thank you for watching theCUBE.