With updates for both the core Docker engine and its registry software, Docker has endeavored to make its popular software container technology faster to deploy and easier to manage.

Docker Engine 1.6 and the Docker Registry 2.0, both released Thursday, work together to simplify the process of managing Docker containers, according to the company.

Taken together, the technologies will form the foundation for running and managing Docker containers for years to come, Docker asserted in a blog post.

Docker rewrote the Registry from scratch, using Google’s Go programming language. Going forward, the Registry will serve as a central server for storing and delivering Docker containers. Like the Docker Engine itself, the Docker Registry is open source. Docker, the company, uses it as the core for its Docker Hub public service.

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