Docker Machine is now in maintenance mode

[shin-]

As has been obvious for some time now, we've slowly stopped implementing or accepting new features for the project. Its desktop usage has mostly been supplanted by our Docker Desktop product. Provisioning on a variety of Cloud providers is overall better achieved using infrakit. Overall, pursuing active development on the project doesn't make sense anymore at this point, which is why we're officially closing the faucet for non-bugfix changes, starting today.

I'm sure many will want to chime in on this, please keep the discussion civil and keep it inside this thread so we can keep things manageable.

[JJayet]

Oh :(

Well this was nice while it lasted :)
Thx everyone for the good work !

[publicarray]

I would ask that you also update the readme.md

[frebib]

If official support for machine is closing, what is the likelihood for continued community-driven support in this repo?

[SvenDowideit]

for those of you needing machine, there is some activity in the https://github.com/machine-drivers organisation, and it may make sense for you to work on, and release from https://github.com/machine-drivers/machine...

[gbraad]

We have already looked into adding patches to this organisation, as they seem to be held from being merged here: #4509 (This is blocking for localized versions of Windows). Best is to move ahead with some form of releases, however for us: minikube and minishift we only need to link against a library.

[justinclift]

@shin- As a thought, the new user "Getting Started" docs still use docker-machine as a central part of the intro.

For people interested in updating the docs, which should they walk people through instead?

• Windows: Seems like Docker Desktop for Windows
• Mac: Seems like Docker Desktop for macOS
• Linux: Keep using the Machine docs?

[efrecon]

I think that this really is a shame. The real power of machine was somewhere between the simplicity of getting things work on one machine using Desktop and the complexity behind infrakit. machine was perfect to fire up a few machines for testing distributed workloads at smaller scale.