Originally published in The New Stack Update.
A year ago, most users of containers were not using orchestration tools, but instead relied on custom scripts, CLIs and perhaps their configuration management solutions. Those were supposedly early adopters. Six months ago an UBM/Interop ITX report, based on a broader base of general cloud computing users, found that 35 percent are using custom code connected with vendor APIs to automate their workloads within their cloud environment. As can be seen in the chart above, defining what automation/orchestration is can be difficult. Is it done with Splunk, Chef or cloud management software like that from RightScale? And if these tools are being used, how much manual work is still involved? At The New Stack, we don’t automatically assume to have all the answers.
