Serverless Usage Not Popular in Workplaces
Only about one in five IT professionals in a new study by DigitalOcean said they use serverless at their organization.
Tag: Containers
Container Security on Amazon Web Services
Organizations are not using scanning as much as they could to increase container security. Although 67% use Amazon ECR, only 40% are actually using the container registry’s native capabilities to scan images.
IT Ops Assumes a Greater Role in Container Management
Research from Kubernetes provider Diamanti corroborates three trends we’ve seen in recent market research about containers adoption: 1) IT operations teams have taken the lead; 2) security, not state, is the biggest obstacle to increased adoption; and 3) performance, not cost, is the reason to run containers on bare metal.
Insights from 68 People Who Care About AWS Container Security
In late 2019, Amazon Web Services’ Developer Advocate Michael Hausenblas surveyed 68 people who use containers on AWS. The publicly available results provide several anecdotal clues about adoption patterns among customers of the world’s largest cloud provider.
Security Worries Rise as Container Adoption Increases
Infosec pros were often not consulted before container adoption occurred. Furthermore, over 40 percent of companies have delayed or limited container adoption because of security concerns.
Serverless vs. Kubernetes vs. Containers
Experience with FaaS predicts whether or not someone prefers functions. In fact, 63 percent of those with broad production FaaS implementations would standardize on functions.
DevOps Favor Microservices
55 percent of those running containers in production also use microservices architecture for a production application.
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.
Serverless Adoption on Par with Containers
At least superficially, adoption of serverless technologies now matches that of containers. However, the depth of its use in production applications has yet to be determined.
Cloud-native Ecosystem Proxy: Technologies on Docker
Since NGINX is deployed most often on Datadog customers’ Docker containers, we thought it appropriate to use the chart above as a “proxy” for the cloud-native world. From this perspective, all the top technologies are open source, and most of them support data and messaging infrastructure. Interestingly, every […]
54 Percent of CIOs Have No Plans to Lift or Shift
Just because an application can be containerized or re-platformed does not mean it will be. When Deloitte asked CIOs about their core business applications, a majority said they only plan to enhance functionality, improve integration or stay put. True believers in the microservices/container revolution should not lose […]
Node.js, JVM and the Surprising Results About Docker Swarm
JVM developers are focused on containerizing new as opposed to legacy apps.