This year has seen many companies start deploying containers into production. For now, the majority of the activity revolves around new applications. We expect more legacy applications to be containerized, but no one knows how long this process will take. What we do know is that many organizations are not ready for microservices. Without the infrastructure and processes in place, companies will not have the time or resources to even think about moving their older workloads to a new cloud platform.
People are simultaneously deploying containers for several different use cases. According to a Bitnami survey that focused on container users, 51 percent are using them for test/dev and 47 percent for developing new applications.
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