Consistent containers have accelerated deployments and support automated multi-service workflows
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Docker on Ubuntu is containerizing applications to simplify deployment and ensure consistency across environments since I often need to switch between them.
A quick specific example of an application I have containerized using Docker on Ubuntu is testing application configurations across multi-service deployments using Docker Compose.
Using Docker Compose for those multi-service deployments helps with my workflow since it makes the deployment much easier as I can deploy all of my services in one single file.
I also use Docker on Ubuntu as part of automated workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
What is most valuable?
The best features Docker on Ubuntu offers are its strong points of portability, consistency across deployments, and ease of deployment.
Out of portability, consistency, and ease of deployment, I rely on consistency the most in my daily work since I often need to deploy the same image across different instances, so I need all of them to be exactly the same.
Docker on Ubuntu has positively impacted my organization by helping a lot in shipping our applications since it is our main way of shipping them.
It has helped by reducing deployment times significantly since we basically configure the Docker on Ubuntu images to always have the same configuration, so we do not have to be constantly configuring those same settings since they are already configured by default in our images.
What needs improvement?
Docker on Ubuntu can be improved because it can get quite tricky, and the learning curve is quite steep, especially for beginners who are new to the concept of containerization.
I would also add that using Docker on Ubuntu by itself in complex deployments can be quite tricky without the use of orchestration tools, so the use of orchestration tools along with Docker on Ubuntu is kind of a must, and debugging can also be quite difficult.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Docker on Ubuntu for almost eight years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu is stable, very much so.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu is scalable by itself, but it is even more scalable when used with orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
How are customer service and support?
I have never had to rely on customer support since I use the open-source version, but the community support is very strong.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Docker on Ubuntu, we relied on manual deployments, which is not a solution per se, and we switched to Docker on Ubuntu because of much faster deployments, the consistency across different deployments, and easier management.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that since Docker on Ubuntu itself is open source and free to use, I haven't had any experience with its pricing; the only pricing that comes with Docker on Ubuntu is the infrastructure, and if you opt for enterprise features.
What was our ROI?
I do not have any numbers, but shipping with Docker on Ubuntu has saved us countless hours, and therefore we can operate many more deployments with fewer engineers, so you save a lot in time and personnel.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Docker on Ubuntu, I did not evaluate other options.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Docker on Ubuntu is that Docker on Ubuntu is very powerful and vast, so getting to know the best practices, especially around security and networking, is a must to get the most value out of it. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.
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Hybrid Cloud
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Modern containerization has transformed development workflows and has improved CI CD efficiency
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for
Docker on Ubuntu is running containers and projects that are in containers, containerized projects.
One of those containerized projects is the monitoring stack build, which includes Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana, and it is a really quick thing to run, install, and test. I am using it mainly for tests around the monitoring.
There are actually multiple use cases during my career with Docker on Ubuntu. It was building containers in the CI/CD, and Ubuntu instances actually ran Docker and all the builds and pushed the artifacts to the registries. There were use cases with the projects themselves being containerized, and all various cases. Pretty much everything in modern Linux ecosystems requires Docker.
What is most valuable?
The best features Docker on Ubuntu offers probably include process isolation in general, and it is easy to use and super straightforward.
Process isolation has helped me in my work for many reasons, such as the ability to give a specific amount of resources to a process, and the fact that a process does not interfere with other processes. There are multiple advantages to this, but this is generally a container thing.
There are actually great multiple things about the features of Docker on Ubuntu. If we take Ubuntu desktop and Docker desktop, we can see that it has a really great application with many features, including Kubernetes integration, CVE scanning, an easy to install and easy to use UI, the image manager, and all of these things. Docker is super powerful with modern Linux, especially with the industry standard such as Ubuntu.
Docker on Ubuntu has positively impacted my organization by enabling us to be a modern company that uses a modern architecture approach. It is difficult to do this without Docker.
The impact of Docker on Ubuntu includes improvements in speed, efficiency, and resource management, especially noticeable in our CI/CD pipelines. If we build the containers, it is much easier to distribute our application. It is much easier to install, configure, scale, and do pretty much everything. Without this proper containerization, the projects would work worse, there would be fewer options for deployment, and so on.
What needs improvement?
Docker on Ubuntu can probably be improved in the UI part. I was part of the Docker testing team, and they have a public testing team. There are some improvements to UI and probably making
Kubernetes a bit more integrated, I would say.
I would not add more about the needed improvements as it is difficult to tell. There are no improvements needed for Docker on Ubuntu that I have not mentioned.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Docker on Ubuntu for at least four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Docker on Ubuntu requires Kubernetes. It is pretty much impossible to scale without it.
How are customer service and support?
I have never contacted customer support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use a different solution. It was always Docker.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment, with a lot of time saved due to faster CI/CD builds and deployments, much cheaper storage due to registries, and a much easier to use general architecture. For example, in my company before
Akamai, Docker was a must have. It saved so much time, so much effort, and so much human resources. It is just difficult to explain. It was super useful.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that technically, I did not use the paid version of Docker. This is a very seldom use case as very few organizations and very few people actually need a paid Docker. 99.9% of people will be happy with the open source version, which is open source and free.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Docker on Ubuntu, I did not evaluate other options. It really depends, but there are no really super huge competitors. It is just Podman, but it is a different thing for different cases. It is not that simple with Podman. There are just no proper competitors that are as huge and as famous as Docker is.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Docker on Ubuntu is to learn the containers as this is really cool technology.
I do not have any additional thoughts about Docker on Ubuntu before we wrap up. I would rate this product with a review rating of ten.
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What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Docker on Ubuntu has been for many reasons, running any type of application on Docker in Kubernetes clusters. Usually, Ubuntu is the operating system that I use. One example is running a web application on Ubuntu on Docker.
I have used a specific web application for marketing events where users go onto the website, place reservations for the event, and read information about the event. It's a classic web application with different web pages, and the setup I used in that example was zero to three EC2 instances on AWS running Ubuntu and Docker, scaling based on the number of users trying to access the webpage to meet availability requirements.
What is most valuable?
The best features Docker on Ubuntu offers include really good support as Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, and Docker, the company, work closely together. Ubuntu is definitely the most widely used operating system for Docker, so when new features come about or security patches are released, they usually go to Ubuntu first, which is good. I have also found personally that when using documentation to build out applications, most of the documentation references using Ubuntu, making it easier. There is a lot of documentation and community support, including many Stack Overflow articles, to help someone use Ubuntu and Docker.
The performance is good, and Docker and Ubuntu are designed to work together very effectively since Docker likely chose Ubuntu as its reference OS. The functionality of the two working together is very good, and it's easy to install packages using Ubuntu's apt package manager when using Docker. If you wanted to install adjacent tools like Docker Compose or NVIDIA Docker for GPUs, it's very easy to do those types of things, and there's also a lot of documentation available on how to do it.
Docker on Ubuntu has positively impacted my organization because it really serves as a bedrock combination for building applications on top of it. You need a solid, stable base, and Docker, as a container platform, is very stable and widely used, much of like Ubuntu, making for a strong foundation to build on.
What needs improvement?
Docker on Ubuntu can be improved because Ubuntu is not minimalist at all; it comes with a lot of software by default. This has led some individuals, including myself, to try using Alpine, which is more lightweight, allowing the container to run on a more lightweight operating system that potentially uses fewer resources and reduces costs. If Ubuntu were a little more minimalist, that would be good, but it's not really aiming for that since it intends to be the baseline. Also, Ubuntu moves very fast, possibly faster than other operating systems like Debian, which could demand operational heavy upgrades to major versions every couple of years if there are many applications running.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Docker on Ubuntu for around five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu is very stable. Docker is continually optimized by the Docker company, and Ubuntu is also continually optimized. They link very well together, so it's stable currently, and I imagine it will continue to be long into the future.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu is highly scalable, but it really depends on how you're deploying Docker and Ubuntu and what you're deploying it on. Using Docker on Ubuntu together is a common configuration, and you can deploy it directly on server hardware using virtual machines or in the cloud, scaling however you wish, so I rate it ten out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
My customer support experience was on AWS, and Amazon's customer support is brilliant, with very quick response times, so I give it ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I tried using Docker on CentOS before, but CentOS became deprecated, which is why I switched to Ubuntu, as I believe it won't become deprecated anytime soon due to its wide usage. So, Ubuntu is more stable for that requirement.
Before choosing Docker on Ubuntu, I evaluated using Docker on CentOS as the other option.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the costs can vary for purchasing machine images, but it's very cheap for open source operating systems like Ubuntu, and I can't remember if it was free or very low cost. It might have even been free since it's open source, making it very good.
What about the implementation team?
My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What was our ROI?
I wouldn't say that using Ubuntu and Docker directly saves money, time, or requires fewer employees. It's more about forming a baseline so that whatever application you are building on top of it can deliver those benefits. You need some type of operating system and a container engine, and these two are best in class; it allows whatever you build on top of it to achieve return on investment metrics.
What other advice do I have?
I would say there are fewer errors, and organizations could see at least a ten percent reduction in their errors if they use a popular OS like Ubuntu compared to less known or less documented ones. Additionally, easier scaling is definite, as Ubuntu is very easy to use and scales nicely. Organizations can leverage cloud auto-scaling groups, leading to cost savings, at least ten percent to maybe twenty percent from the scaling.
I advise others to use Docker on Ubuntu if they have a standard use case. If they need a highly secure operating system on a container engine, they might want something more security-focused, or if they want something lightweight, they might choose Linux Alpine, but for most use cases, it's brilliant.
I give this product a rating of ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Containerization has streamlined consistent Linux environments and now simplifies hybrid workflows
What is our primary use case?
I use Docker on Ubuntu primarily for containerizing applications and development environments, creating consistent runtime environments across development and testing, reducing dependency issues, and simplifying the development workflow on the Linux ecosystem.
Recently, I was working with an application for one of the Linux ALSA-based advanced Linux audio system applications, and I had to containerize that application so that we could run it on different devices and different Ubuntu OS versions. I used Docker for this purpose.
In some update systems, I was building some software updates, and I also used Docker for those tasks. There are many additional cases where I have used Docker.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Docker on Ubuntu offers are container isolation, fast startup time, portability, and strong integration with the Ubuntu Linux ecosystem, making it easy to package applications with their dependencies and run them consistently across systems.
Portability and the isolation that containers provide are very useful, as is the fast setup. All these features of Docker are very useful because they help set up environments very quickly on other operating systems without any dependencies, which is a very valuable feature of Docker.
In the Ubuntu ecosystem, the integration is very strong, which I think is one of the best features. The compatibility of Docker with the Ubuntu system is one of the best features.
In my organization, we use the Linux ecosystem exclusively for our development, and my team's development environment is based entirely on the Linux system. We have multiple devices where the system is running. Docker helps us port our software and applications to many devices without any dependencies, such as without any other installation, pre-installed application, or library. Whatever is needed is only packaged in Docker, so it helps us port the application very quickly and very easily. Docker has definitely improved productivity and reliability significantly.
What needs improvement?
Docker on Ubuntu could be improved by making networking and storage configuration simpler, specifically for teams new to containers. Better built-in tooling or clearer documentation for debugging container networking issues would help tremendously. Tightening integration with security tooling and providing clear guidance on container hardening would be useful for production environments. Simplifying networking and improving documentation for debugging would make Docker on Ubuntu even better.
One additional pain point is managing containers at scale. As the number of containers grows, it becomes more complex and requires additional tools. Troubleshooting container networking or volume-related issues can sometimes be time-consuming, specifically in more advanced setups.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using Docker on Ubuntu three years ago.
What other advice do I have?
I have deployed Docker on our private server. We primarily use Docker on on-premises systems and, in some cases, in hybrid setups where development and testing may run on cloud-based environments while production remains on-premises. This approach gives us the best control over hardware, networking, and costs, specifically for embedded and system-level workloads.
In our hybrid setup, we mainly use AWS for development and testing workloads while the production ecosystem runs on-premises, utilizing AWS for tasks including CI/CD pipelines, container image storage, and temporary test environments. For our cloud side, we use AWS through the AWS Marketplace combined with on-premises infrastructure for our core system.
From my experience, pricing and licensing for Docker on Ubuntu are very straightforward. Docker itself is open source and when used on Ubuntu, there are no licensing costs, which significantly reduces setup and operational expenses. When using Docker via AWS Marketplace, pricing is transparent and usage-based, making cost planning easier. Overall, Docker on Ubuntu helps us avoid vendor lock-in and reduces infrastructure costs compared to traditional VM-based deployments.
Using Docker on Ubuntu helps us save time and operational efforts rather than directly reducing headcount. It saved setup time by seventy percent, reduced VMs and infrastructure cost by thirty to forty percent, and improved team productivity without needing additional engineers.
Before choosing Docker on Ubuntu, we evaluated a few other options, including VM-only deployments and Docker on other Linux distributions like CentOS and Amazon Linux, but Ubuntu offered better documentation, community support, and smoother Docker integration.
On a scale of one to ten, I would give Docker on Ubuntu a rating of eight.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Daily containerized workflows have improved consistency and saved time in local development
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Docker on Ubuntu is mostly for local development. I use Docker on Ubuntu to run and test services, isolate containers, and keep my setup consistent. For example, I use it to run a local web application with a database so I can test everything in a containerized environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Docker on Ubuntu has positively impacted my organization by improving consistency and reducing setup time, which makes development workflows more efficient. From the company perspective, it saves time by keeping environments consistent and minimizing setup and configuration issues across the team.
What is most valuable?
The best features Docker on Ubuntu offers are consistency and easy setup. It helps avoid dependency conflicts and keep environments predictable. I can always isolate a service and work without affecting my system. Since I use Ubuntu on my computer, I use Docker on Ubuntu every day in my life because I think it runs faster and I can work better.
What needs improvement?
Docker on Ubuntu can be improved because the initial learning curve could be smoother for new users. The Docker documentation could be better with more real-world examples in the documentation, specifically end-to-end examples for common use cases. I think it is more about better integration and clear best practices.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Docker on Ubuntu for around two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I find Docker on Ubuntu to be stable. I started with AWS and have no problems with Amazon Cloud.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu's scalability is good, as both are stable and scalable. Ubuntu is very stable as an operating system, and Docker scales well when used properly across projects and environments. I have no problems with the scalability.
How are customer service and support?
I have not needed customer support for Docker on Ubuntu.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not previously used a different solution before Docker on Ubuntu.
What was our ROI?
I do not have the exact metrics regarding the return on investment because I do not track that. The main return is time-saving, as it provides less setup time, fewer errors, and improved developer productivity.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I do not have a problem with the pricing for Docker on Ubuntu because I do not pay for that; my boss does. I only use the tools.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I never evaluated other options before choosing Docker on Ubuntu as I started with that.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Docker on Ubuntu would be to follow the official documentation and practice with simple projects before using it in more complex environments. Be patient with the learning curve and be confident as you learn by taking baby steps. I would rate this product an 8 overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Container workflows have accelerated CI/CD pipelines and support machine learning deployments
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Docker on Ubuntu is CI/CD.
I use Docker on Ubuntu to deploy applications.
I am solving business problems with Docker on Ubuntu related to machine learning and machine learning applications.
What is most valuable?
The best features Docker on Ubuntu offers are containers.
The ease of creating and managing containers stands out for me.
Docker on Ubuntu has positively impacted my organization through CI/CD.
Docker on Ubuntu has benefited my organization by enabling fast deployment.
What needs improvement?
I don't know how Docker on Ubuntu can be improved.
There is nothing specific I think could be better about Docker on Ubuntu.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Docker on Ubuntu for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We made a connection switch and are having technical problems.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Docker on Ubuntu has good scalability for my organization.
How are customer service and support?
Docker on Ubuntu customer support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What was our ROI?
I measure success with Docker on Ubuntu in my organization with no metrics.
The performance of Docker on Ubuntu for my needs has no metrics.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others looking into using Docker on Ubuntu to try it with Ubuntu.
I found this interview valuable and have no changes for the future.
I would not like for you to provide a short poem or haiku that will summarize my review.
I have given this review a rating of 9.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
