2020 Differences Between Docker CE and EE
Docker’s last-ditch effort for being a viable product company
Docker has been burning through money for a while now, and with no viable business plan, I firmly believe it is soon to die as a company. Docker has only one revenue stream: it’s Docker EE product. Docker EE fails to bring much value-add to an organization over many other products available on the market. Let’s do a quick review of the differences between Docker’s open-source product and its enterprise offering.
What is Docker Community Edition?
Docker Engine has was renamed to Docker Community Edition and, as the name suggests, community-supported version of Docker that’s available free of cost. Docker CE is a free and open-source containerization platform. It is a rebranded version of the Docker open-source solution that has been freely available since the launch of Docker in 2013.
The community edition is available in two versions:
- Edge and
- Stable.
Edge will be released each month with the latest features. Stable continues to be published quarterly. While Edge will receive security updates and bug fixes for the current release, the stable version will get similar updates for four months after the initial release.
