Tutum

Tutum emerged in October 2013, founded by Borja Burgos and Fernando Mayo, as a container platform designed to simplify the deployment and management of applications built with Docker. Recognizing the revolutionary potential of Docker's containerization technology early on, the founders, who had backgrounds in the challenges of running applications across diverse infrastructures, set out to create a solution to manage the entire lifecycle of application containers. The company developed a cloud service that functioned as an "Orchestration-as-a-Service" platform, allowing developers to move applications from development to production on any infrastructure, whether on-premise or cloud-based, in a fraction of the time.

Tutum's platform addressed a critical gap in the application delivery pipeline by automating the deployment, scaling, and management of Docker containers. It provided a unified framework and an intuitive web interface that enabled both development and operations teams to manage distributed applications, effectively bridging the gap between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This model offered the flexibility of IaaS, allowing users to bring their own cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Digital Ocean, while providing the simplicity of a PaaS. Before its acquisition, the company had attracted 24,000 beta users.

In a significant milestone, Docker acquired Tutum in October 2015. The acquisition was a strategic move for Docker to integrate Tutum's orchestration capabilities directly into its own offerings, specifically with Docker Hub, to provide a comprehensive, end-to-end commercial solution for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. The entire Tutum team of 11, based in New York and Madrid, joined Docker as part of the deal. Following the acquisition, Tutum's technology was integrated and rebranded, eventually becoming known as Docker Cloud.

Keywords: Tutum, Docker, container orchestration, application deployment, cloud platform, container management, Docker Cloud, Borja Burgos, Fernando Mayo, PaaS, IaaS, DevOps, containerization, microservices, application lifecycle management, cloud infrastructure, Docker Hub, container deployment, infrastructure automation, application scaling