Changes in version 1.12 further enhanced swarm mode as a way to deploy a highly resilient application with nothing more than what's in the box. In earlier changes, Swarm orchestration technology was directly integrated into Docker, where before it was an add-on. Under the swarm mode moniker, this revision was a challenge to third-party orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes. Most developers will want the former, but those who prefer to experiment with bleeding-edge features (and assess late-breaking bug fixes) can opt for the beta-test edition.ĭocker for the desktop wouldn't be much good without Docker itself, so Docker for Mac and Windows come bundled with the latest edition of the Docker Engine, 1.12.

Docker has replaced that with each platform's native virtualization technology: the Apple Hypervisor Framework on the Mac and Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows. User feedback also led the company to add workflow features like the ability to live-debug running containers with IDE integration.ĭocker for Mac and Windows is available in both stable and beta-test editions - much the same way Google offers the Chrome browser. Originally, the desktop editions of Docker on both platforms used VirtualBox to provide a virtualized environment for running containers. Docker unveiled version 1.12 of its core software-containerization system today, along with the first full desktop editions of the software for development on Mac and Windows machines.ĭocker for Mac and Docker for Windows, which debuted as beta products earlier this year, provide developers on those platforms with something that had always seemed out of reach: the ability to do container work with Docker as a native application.

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