When covering the container ecosystem, vendors repeatedly tell us that their target audience is DevOps. Although we have long thought of DevOps as more of a process, there is more and more data that says otherwise. The recent Stack Overflow survey saw the percentage of developers identifying as DevOps almost doubled from 1.4 percent in 2015 to a still small 2.2 percent currently. Yet, among the people that are using containers, DevOps are almost a majority. Among the 179 end users that The New Stack surveyed this March, 49 percent described their job role as DevOps. The full results of the survey about container orchestration will be published in the upcoming ebook.
