Summary

A common thread among all the tools we have looked at in this chapter is that they all quickly evolved to offer support for Docker, filling in gaps in functionality, which was missing from the core Docker toolset.

Over the past 12 months, the rapid development of Docker has meant that some of these tools may not necessarily be required any more.

However, as they all provide a wide range of functionality outside of Docker, it means that they can still be a valuable part of your day-to-day workflow should Docker only be one of the technologies you are working with.

There is one thing using that the tools in this chapter does not provide and that's some intelligence around where your containers are launched, you still have to instruct the tools ...

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