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 the ability to use stateful storage is essential to running many types of workloads, respondents to The New Stack’s survey have already started production use of containers without it. Thus, many likely believe that while it can solve problems, it is not an essential capability. Similarly, it is not surprising that only 11 percent say handling non-container workloads is extremely important since much early production uses of containers are occurring in greenfield cloud-native environments. To learn more about the survey this data comes from, read The Present State of Container Orchestration.
