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 of automated continuous deployment pipelines. Both are probably necessary to take advantage of your DevOps culture and emerging microservices frameworks. Fintan Ryan wrote, “for most people looking to use containers at scale, CI is where they will need to start.” So, does that mean both should be adopted simultaneously or sequentially? If sequentially, should CI come first or second? Or should CI and containers just be components in a bundled continuous solution? We look forward to digging into the Bitnami data to see what more it can tell us about the relationship between CI usage and the scale of their container deployments. In the meantime, please let us know if you have answers to our questions.
