A 2019 Container Adoption Benchmark Survey from Kubernetes provider Diamanti corroborates three trends we’ve seen in recent market research about containers adoption: 1) IT operations teams have taken the lead; 2) security, not state, is the biggest obstacle to increased adoption; and 3) performance, not cost, is the reason to run containers on bare metal.
Of the over 500 IT leaders surveyed by Diamanti, 35% said IT operations teams were driving container adoption, doubling the amount answering that way in the 2018 study. IT operations’ increased influence is partly because many companies have made a strategic decision to move forward with Kubernetes even before they have widescale production use of containers.
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