Docker's Quiet Exit from the Kubernetes Party

Description

This meme uses the 'They don't know' or 'I wish I was at home' party format. A Wojak character wearing a party hat stands alone in a corner, labeled 'Docker', thinking, 'They don't know I'm about to leave without saying bye'. In the foreground, other partygoers, labeled 'Containerd' and 'Cri-o', are happily socializing and dancing, completely oblivious. This meme perfectly captures the situation in the Kubernetes ecosystem around December 2020 when the deprecation of the Docker runtime shim was announced. While Docker was a well-known, popular technology (the one everyone knows at the party), Kubernetes was moving towards standardized container runtimes (CRI). 'Containerd' and 'Cri-o' were already compliant and becoming the center of attention, while Docker's special integration (dockershim) was being phased out, forcing it to 'leave the party' without much fanfare

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Docker at the Kubernetes party is like a dev who wrote a popular library but refused to use standard interfaces. The community just built an adapter, and now they're removing the adapter

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Docker at the Kubernetes party is like a dev who wrote a popular library but refused to use standard interfaces. The community just built an adapter, and now they're removing the adapter
Anonymous

Docker’s doing the Irish-exit from kubelet while everyone vibes with containerd - until the 3 AM deploy script still expects /var/run/docker.sock and PagerDuty becomes the after-party cleanup crew
Anonymous

Docker's the only one at the party who brought a 300MB Alpine image as a plus-one, meanwhile containerd and CRI-O are comparing how many syscalls they saved by not wrapping everything in seventeen abstraction layers
Anonymous

Docker showing up to the Kubernetes party only to realize everyone's already moved on to containerd and CRI-O - a perfect metaphor for when your monolithic architecture gets quietly replaced by microservices while you're still explaining why 'docker run' is all anyone needs. The real irony? Docker literally donated containerd to CNCF, essentially training its own replacement. It's the tech equivalent of mentoring your successor and then awkwardly realizing they're better at your job
Anonymous

Dockershim deprecated: Docker's flawless CRI exit(0) - no SIGTERM, no socket drama
Anonymous

Kubernetes party etiquette: Docker Irish-goodbyes, containerd and CRI‑O keep kubelet dancing; the only one panicking is your CI that assumed the runtime was the CLI
Anonymous

When K8s dropped dockershim in 1.24, Docker Irish-exited and the only alert we got was a failing node health check still grepping 'docker ps'
Deleted Account 5y

NOT XD
Deleted Account 5y

explain pls i'm not a reboot engineer
1. @serghei_k 5y
  
  Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20.
  
  @lord_nani 5y
  
  And replacing with what?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/03/docker_deprecated_in_kubernetes_this/