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Everyone loves Docker for a wide range of reasons. Internally, we run multiple copies of Remote.It agent on the same system. Each container is isolated so that each container can be a different version for testing. Docker doesn't care if the host or containers are locally on a developer machine or hosted in AWS in an ECS or EKS cluster. Containers only use system resources on demand, so it's very efficient. We don’t preallocate large systems or virtual machines. Containers can also automatically restart if anything goes wrong and it crashes. We often have to replicate complex test environments to mirror our customer's deployment. Replication can be done using docker-compose or Kubernetes from the Docker desktop.
Our customers love the combined Remote.It and Docker solution as well. A huge benefit to many customers is by using Remote.It in a container environment, customers can take advantage of the service discovery functions within the container environment. For example, in a recent Kubernetes proof of concept for a customer, they had an EchoServer service and a Remote.It-Agent Service. When we configure the connection to the EchoServer Service, we just have to put 'echoserver' in the hostname for the connection. It doesn't matter where in the cluster 'echoserver' is running. We can connect to it. If they add more pods to the Service, we don't have to change anything.
Let's take a step back for those new to Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.
Docker is a platform that enables developers and DevOps engineers to build, deploy, run, update, and manage containers.
A container is a standardized, executable component that combines the application source code with the operating system libraries and dependencies to run that code in any environment.
Developers can create containers without Docker. But Docker makes containerization faster, easier, and safer.
Docker is an open-source project.
Docker, Inc is a company that sells the commercial version of Docker.
You can read about our Docker solution or go directly to our Docker Hub image with command line instructions.
