CoreOS, Red Hat and Kubernetes Competition
69 percent of the survey uses Kubernetes, with little specific evidence that respondents are wed to one company’s distribution.
DevOps Favor Microservices
55 percent of those running containers in production also use microservices architecture for a production application.
AWS Lambda Still Towers Over the Competition, but for How Much Longer?
Amazon Web Services’ Lambda remains the serverless leader, but competitors have a gleam of hope in their eyes.
Developers Care About Security, but the Infosec Team Cares More
60% of a developer-focused survey said that release schedules have overridden security concerns at their organization.
Blockchain Is Hot; but React.js Is on Top
Blockchain is hot, but it still has to make exponential-size gains until it rivals other skills, such as React programming, that will get a developer a job.
DevOps for the Database
Most surveys show that a majority of enterprises have at least started their journey to DevOps adoption. The specifics of DevOps adoption depend on how it is defined and measured. Just looking at continuous delivery (CD) and automation, a survey from DBMaestro of 224 IT professionals in […]
Making Sense of Open Source Projects
Assessing who contributes to an open source project is not as easy as running a few queries against the GitHub API. Yet, as we continue to see, that doesn’t stop people from trying.
Kubernetes Implementations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Kubernetes is winning the expectations game. According to 173 production-level users of Kubernetes, a full 99 percent said the platform has either completely or substantially met their IT or business goals.
Co-Location Not Hurt by the Public Cloud Boom
Some large customers looking for improved latency may start to demand that their cloud services be hosted in the same facilities as their co-located IT infrastructure equipment.
Container Storage Preferences for Kubernetes
Among the Kubernetes evaluators who responded to our survey, nearly three respondents in four (73 percent) who use AWS storage with Kubernetes gave Amazon EC2 Container Service some consideration. The high level of consideration is mostly because of AWS’s overall Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market share. However, very few of these people (18 percent) actually ended up using ECS.
Can There Be Too Much DevOps Automation?
Just like everyone else, NetOps and DevOps want to save time and money while reducing human error. Yet, a recent survey by F5 Networks of 884 professionals indicates that networking and DevOps still don’t agree about automation’s importance in relation to priorities like security, performance and reliability. […]
New Monitoring Methods for Kubernetes
Prometheus is by far the most cited tool among our survey respondents for monitoring Kubernetes clusters.