Docker and Arm today announced a strategic partnership enabling Cloud developers to build applications for Cloud, edge, and IoT environments seamlessly on the Arm architecture.
Arm said in a press release that the companies were working together to provide the 1st frictionless cloud-native unified software development & delivery model. This collaboration will allow organizations to build applications faster, more securely, and ultimately create new services and applications to further realize the benefits of digital transformation. The data generated by the proliferation of the IoT and intelligent connected devices were causing networks to be weighed down, thus making centralised processing inefficient and expensive.
Docker and Arm will be addressing this challenge by developers to remove the dependencies of applications from infrastructure, while gaining delivery & production frameworks. Enterprises also benefit through direct Cloud cost savings & increased operational efficiencies with Docker developers seamlessly becoming Arm developers, instantly taking advantage of new services like AWS EC2 A1 instances based on AWS Graviton Processors that feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores.
The two companies were also making Docker-based solutions available to the Arm developer ecosystem as an extension of the Arm Neoverse platform. This integration means millions of Arm developers can now leverage Docker-based solutions to build & deploy their applications more quickly and easily across a wide range of applications from Cloud to edge to device.