BARCELONA, Spain—The DockerCon EU conference kicked off here today, with both the devoted and the curious assembled to learn about one of the most talked-about technologies today—Docker. It’s no longer just a small project run by a single company; it’s a community that has the biggest names in IT—including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM—supporting it.
But why is Docker so popular? What makes it the new technology that organizations big and small are racing to embrace?