Docker Engine Open Source Release

Solomon Hykes unveiled Docker, an open-source container engine, at PyCon US. It was originally built on top of LXC (Linux containers) and developed by dotCloud.

Significance

This event marked the birth of Docker as a public project, laying the foundation for the container revolution that Docker Desktop would later extend to local development environments.

Key facts

Date
2013-03-23
Type
release
Location
Santa Clara, California (PyCon US)