Has Container Adoption Stalled?
Instead of a large uptake in new container users, the “action” is in converting small implementations into larger ones.
Category: The New Stack
Lawrence started working with The New Stack in 2015. He was the research director for several ebooks about containers, Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.
He highlighted a chart and findings from industry research in The New Stack’s weekly newsletter. This sampling of the over 400 articles and reports he has written.
But I Thought Development Time Was Contracting
According to a BCG study, long development times have become an even bigger inhibitor to innovation and product development. In an article about NoOps and serverless, Mark Boyd speculated that this is because DevOps adds development time as application builders become weighed down by the need to manage […]
Do App Developers Count?
13 million developers are registered with Apple. How many of those are professional coders and how many are just taking advantage of the developer program’s freebies? We don’t know, but we believe most are not professional coders. If they were, then 65 percent of self-identified […]
Defining Container Registries
Docker users responding to an Artifactory survey overwhelmingly think Docker is a packaging format.
If CI is a prerequisite for containers at scale, then …
According to RedMonk’s analysis of a Bitnami survey, 28 percent of respondents do continuous integration (CI) to some degree and 25 percent use containers. Both CI and containers are supposed to reduce the amount of time needed to test and deploy applications. Both are part […]
First Things First. Persistent Storage a Second Level Concern
When choosing a container orchestration tool, 68 percent of respondents said the ability to manage long-running applications is critically important. Fifty-nine percent also said load balancing capabilities is extremely important. Less important is persistent storage, with only 38 percent saying it is extremely important. Although […]
Is Ansible Really Leading Chef and Puppet for Container Orchestration?
Is Ansible really heads and shoulders about Puppet and Chef in the world of container orchestration? Several readers asked this question after reading our recent survey’s results. The answer is maybe, but there are reasons to believe the data. After the Red Hat’s acquisition of Ansible […]
The Present State of Container Orchestration
The New Stack ran a survey that was able to target users of container management technology, with 70 percent of respondents using containers to some degree. We found that there is uncertainty about what it means to manage and orchestrate containers.
Why are so Many Survey Respondents from IT Vendors?
Every week another survey about one tech trend or another is published. Want a reliable way to separate the wheat from the chaff? Review the study’s sample. Studies that interview the wrong people may be biased. If the subject is databases, for example, Oracle employees […]
Vendors Working Towards Kubernetes Interoperability
This year, we conducted a new survey where both end users and vendors were asked about container orchestration. The results do nothing to say that Docker has lost its centrality, but rather that Kubernetes has arrived.
What if Docker is just a packaging format?
Production users of containers overwhelmingly think of Docker as a packaging format. Docker the company thinks it is much more. The chart is from a JFrog survey and was completed by many Artifactory users, which means they understand the roles package and repository managers play. Along with […]
Tug of War Between Network Automation Benefits
IT pros are of mixed minds about CLIs. They know CLIs inhibit network automation, but they appreciate the agility they can provide. Based on an ESG survey of IT pros, the main benefit of network automation, cited by 20 percent of respondents, is that configurations become […]