Originally published in The New Stack Update.
Conventional wisdom over the last few months is that although Kubernetes became the leading choice for container orchestration, Docker Swarm (or Swarmkit) still enjoys an advantage among developers. Survey data from Anchore — analyzed by Red Monk — turns that thinking on its head. Almost twice as many developers and development managers in the survey are using a Kubernetes-based orchestrator as compared to Docker Swarm. Although casual developers may still know Docker best, that doesn’t necessarily translate into using the company’s products to orchestrate production deployments. Docker remains a strong number two overall. Beyond developers, the race between Docker and Kubernetes solutions is neck-and-neck among architects, operations and sysadmins. As Fintan Ryan noted in his blog post, Apache Mesos/Mesosphere continues to be a viable alternative for architects that are looking for a single framework to manage both their big data and container environments.
