Data layer for Docker in our data-driven and disruptive world.

Distributed systems and storage, and containers are henceforth indispensable to deal with critical challenges related to app development. In fact the ability to build and run software faster is a game-changing when it comes to meet competition and the scalability stakes.

For those who unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, the architecture behind containers enables companies to build higher quality software, faster.

With about 100 million downloads in January 2015, the Docker container platform is the reference in this vertical. 

But according to ClusterHQ, ‘’Containers don’t handle data very well. This means that databases, the heart of every application, can’t run in containers without significant engineering resources’’.

Therefore, at ClusterHQ, they are building the data layer for containers, enabling developers and operations teams to:

·        Run applications, databases, queues and key-value stores and

·        give all developers the tools they need to run their critical data services inside containers,

·        Realize the full speed and quality benefits of a fully containerized architecture.

Connectikpeople.co also recalls that, in August 2014, ClusterHQ launched an open source project called Flocker which aims to let developers run their databases inside Docker containers and make them as portable as the rest of the app. Powerstrip, is a tool to prototype Docker extensions that aism to accelerate the ability to use Flocker seamlessly with Docker.