#Kitematic wikipedia mac os x#

On top of VirtualBox, Kitematic is also leveraging the open-source boot2docker project in order to get the Docker engine running. Kitematic also leverages the open-source Oracle VirtualBox technology as the virtualization hypervisor layer on which Kitematic runs. “Kitematic is basically a Web application that is put inside a shell that makes it feel like a native desktop application,” Li said. Li explained that Kitematic is largely built in Atom Shell, which is an open-source cross-platform framework for writing desktop applications.

The Kitematic technology is built with several open-source components. “Kitematic is something on your computer, and you’re controlling the cloud in a way, with the ‘matic’ part implying that it’s automated.” “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. The name Kitematic is intended to be descriptive of what the technology is all about. Kitematic won the prize in 2013 and was able to secure an additional $25,000 by way of a Government of Canada Jumpstart grant. Sean Li, co-founder of Kitematic, explained that the University of Waterloo has a competition, called Velocitiy, for new company ideas every school term, with the winner being awarded $25,000.

#Kitematic wikipedia mac os x#

Although Kitematic currently supports Apple’s Mac OS X only, its development roadmap includes plans for a Windows version in the coming months.Īs a project, Kitematic doesn’t have any venture funding, but rather was jump-started by way of winning a competition at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Kitematic is an open-source project that enables users to easily deploy and run Docker containers on a desktop operating system. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Docker Inc., the lead commercial sponsor behind the Docker open-source container application virtualization technology, today announced that it has acquired privately held Kitematic.