Docker Universal Control Plane

Hu?

I've worked with VMWare/AWS/OpenStack in both "Enterprise" and "real world" environments. I've spent a long time reading vendor white papers and I've had the misfortune of writing a few. I've used Docker pretty extensively too.

Unfortunately I'm not too sure what this does.

So I think what this does is let you deploy and move Docker containers and hence Dockerized apps between hosts.

Maybe?

But what does this mean "For developers and IT operations teams, Universal Control Panel provides a quick and easy way to build, ship, and run distributed apps from a single Docker framework."

So this isn't just a management app?

I can't help but feel like Docker is lacking focus and a proliferation of tools with overlapping roles are emerging. So we have Docker Machine to provision nodes from command line, Kitematic as a GUI version, Tutum, which is similar to both (albeit more powerful) but hosted by Docker, and now the Universal Control Plane.

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what the Universal Control Plane does. There doesn't seem to be much available in terms of documentation, just the beta signup page.

Can't help but feel that 'control plane' is the new 'shell script': I never heard this term until recently, and it seems to be on the hype-train, certainly in Silly-Valley.

I wonder, does that Google historical search-frequency analyzer thang let you do geographic breakdowns? Anyone else remember HP-issued SNMP-based management software from the 1990s: control plane indeed! I'd wager this is part of what inspired Nagios.

Better and less buzz-word compliant description with nice system diagrams is on the blog post: http://blog.docker.com/2015/11/dockercon-eu-2015-docker-univ...

Is this like a self-hosted Tutum?

"Plane" or "Panel"? They don't seem to be quite certain either.