It has taken years and years for legacy apps to slowly migrate to the cloud. Some speculate things might be different with containers. Yet, just like with general “cloud,” container usage has thrived most among startups and those deploying applications to greenfields. Just looking at the universe of container users, only 29 percent say they will use containers to re-architect part of an older app. However, a majority of people doing re-architecting will also be deploying new apps on containers. In Re-architecting for Containers Beyond the Greenfield, I posit that developers are less likely to refactor their existing applications for containers if they have yet to achieve microservices maturity.
Originally published in The New Stack Update.
