[HN Gopher] Docker Offload
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Docker Offload
        
       Author : redbell
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-04-05 12:23 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.docker.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.docker.com)
        
       | PhilippGille wrote:
       | The article tries to sell it to people who can't run Docker
       | locally (e.g. locked down permissions in enterprise environments,
       | slow old laptop), but hasn't it already been possible to use
       | remote Docker engines?
       | 
       | So the news is that they're offering to host those remotes now,
       | right?
        
         | justsomehnguy wrote:
         | Nah. It's just 15 years later they finally try to find a niche
         | would also bring them monies. There are a lot of business who
         | would just offload (yes, I did it too) the burden of compliance
         | to a 3rd party - and this is the reason it's mentioned quite
         | prominently there.
         | 
         | Good for them but they should had done this ten years ago.
        
       | coldbrewed wrote:
       | Wait a minute, wasn't this effectively the business model of
       | dotcloud before they became Docker Inc?
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2026-04-05 23:02 UTC)