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HPE comes over all Docker, throws containers at Helion tools lineup

Move of its tools kit illustrates interest in the tech

HP Enterprise jumped into the Docker ecosystem with both feet today, running the container technology right through its Helion cloud portfolio.

The newly-minted, veteran enterprise tech vendor used Dockercon Europe to take the wraps off what it described as "comprehensive set of enterprise class tools and services to help customers develop, test and run Docker environments at enterprise scale".

This Docker-ised lineup will span cloud, software, storage and services, it added.

Top of the list is HPE Helion Development Platform 2.0 with support for Docker, which HPE promised would allow developers and IT operators to deploy microservices as Docker containers.

Note the strategic mentions of devs and operators. HPE further burnishes its DevOps credentials by adding that Helion Development Platform 2.0 includes the Helion Code Engine, "a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) service for automating the build, test and deploy workflow for code".

"This service is merged into a Git repository through a Docker Trusted Registry and the Helion Development Platform", it HPE added. More DevOps/Continuous Delivery boxes ticked.

HPE also gives its StormRunner and AppPulse load testing and performance monitoring tools a Docker makeover, giving them the ability to oversee containerised apps and microservices.

Support for containerisation and microservices cascades down through the Helion toolset, while HPE also promised persistent storage for Docker containerised apps via its 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual lines.

And, being at heart an old-school soup to nuts tech vendor, HP has helpfully developed a Docker reference architecture and reference guide.

HPE’s Dockerisation of its tools kit illustrates the level of interest in the technology, and represents its first large-scale move since its official split from its former inky colleagues last month. In the meantime, the vendor has been aligning itself with the hype around DevOps, Agile development and ContinuousDelivery.

But while Docker has generated masses of hyperbole over the last year or two, the reaction of delegates at industry conferences suggest high levels of interest, rather than wide-scale use of the technology in production – particularly in more traditional organisations.

So it will be while yet before we can say whether either of HP’s move is an unqualified success. ®

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