No conspiracy Red Hat just moved early (Score 1)

I think Red Hat saw the writing on the wall but they're a bit too early, in my opinion. We're in a transition period right now. It looks like docker is going to wither away but it may take years. I admin both docker-ce and Docker Enterprise at my company. We're a Red Hat shop but RH dropping docker support was one item on a small list of reasons why we're bringing in Ubuntu to round out our offering. At the same time I'm preparing for running docker long-term I'm also looking for dockers replacement. For Red Hat I think they just didn't want to put any more effort into docker on top of the fact that they have their own competing runtime (CRI-O) their own competing enterprise platform (OpenShift) and a fairly reasonable single-node docker replacement at least for development work (podman). And they also want more input, if not control, of the container runtime and userland bits. I haven't put podman in front of any users yet and I won't until I put RHEL8 in front of them. Until then it's docker and going forward it will be docker on Ubuntu.