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Comment by michaelmior | Hacker News Reader

While this is interesting, I was disappointed to see only one of the startups was something other than a PaaS for Docker (aside from the book). I'm really curious to hear more about how companies are using Docker in production.

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I use Docker in 'production' as the backend for an internal training tool. Docker improves my quality of life as a developer so much. Wrapping previously difficult to work with simulations into easily manageable and API driven containers is awesome!

Same here. I thought the title would more appropriately be something like "10 startups that are providing Docker-based services."

I think Quay is more like GitHub for Docker, Shippable is more CI/CD for Docker, and the Memcached service is definitely not a PaaS. Along with the book, 4/10 of them are not like a PaaS for Docker.

Fair point. The PaaS statement was inaccurate. However, my point was that most were services for Docker. Of course this means they are "using" Docker, but they're only relevant insofar as other people are using Docker for other use cases, which is what I was really interested to see.

Check out the Docker blog, there are tons of examples of companies using it for themselves. https://blog.docker.io

From memory there are presentations or blog posts by engineers at Ebay, Mailgun, Cloudflare, Spotify, RelateIQ, Atlassian, Baidu, Yandex, etc.

We're using docker at ShareLaTeX to run the latex compilation. It lets us have lightweight isolated containers so that we can now let people do scary/cool things like run R code in a secure way.

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