Docker Acquires Kitematic for Desktop Container Deployment Technology | Linux Today

Docker Acquires Kitematic for Desktop Container Deployment Technology

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 12, 2015

The name Kitematic is intended to be descriptive of what the technology is all about.

“The kite part is that you’re on the ground, and you have strings that you can control something that is in the cloud,” Li told eWEEK. “Kitematic is something on your computer, and you’re controlling the cloud in a way, with the ‘matic’ part implying that it’s automated.” –

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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