The New Stack will present survey results about market perceptions of container orchestration. The battle between container orchestration platforms will be examined based on user plans as well as what is actually being used for service discovery, scheduling and cluster management. In addition, data will show what people find most important when evaluating a container orchestration or management platform.

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Market
Perceptions
of
CONTAINER
ORCHESTRATION

2. SaaS
2
Why Perceptions?
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Container
Orchestration
IaaS
PaaS
Private
Public
Multi

3. 3
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4. 4
Who We Interviewed
Respondents in
Feb 21 - Mar 14
survey
309
61%of respondents are
end users
49%of end users are
DevOps
End users
using and/or
trialing containers
164

5. What We Found
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Agreement: Service
Discovery, Scheduling,
Cluster Management
Not Configuration
Management
CaaS: Superset? More
consensus than expected
Open source tools used
for specific functionality
Orchestration Platforms
are primary method,
but...
Big 4 for future plans,
with Ansible
distinguishing itself
Market
Definition
Roadmap
Selection
Criteria
Not looking for one
solution for everything
Integrated tooling more
important than
interoperability with
systems/ languages

6. What Are We Talking About?
MARKET DEFINITION

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Scheduling, cluster management & service discovery
considered to be container orchestration

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Container orchestration and registries are most
associated with Containers as a Service.

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Vendors were parsimonious when defining container
orchestration and CaaS.

10. What is Being Used?
PRODUCT CHOICES

11. Orchestration is the primary managing method for
45% of those using or trialing containers.
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Use of config management tools to manage containers
declines with move into production.

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CaaS along with the likes of Swarm, Kubernetes
& Mesos, compete to win over IT Ops.

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Kubernetes, Ansible, Mesos/Mesosphere,
Amazon ECS & Docker Swarm top users’ plans.

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HashiCorp, OpenShift and Chef in near-term plans
among those trialing or with non-production use.

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Consul, ZooKeeper and etcd are used more often than
other tools for service discovery.

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Kubernetes, Marathon and Swarm are the commonly
used tool for scheduling containers.

18. How Are Products Chosen?
SELECTION CRITERIA

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Tools that can be used by both developers and
IT ops are the most important criteria.

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Supporting long-running applications
and load balancing capabilities are important.

21. Recap and Moving Forward

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Takeaways
Kubernetes, Mesos & Mesosphere DC/OS, Docker, AWS
Knowledge About Tech Being Used
● Docker’s Swarm is recognized as the underlying technology for Docker
Cloud and Docker Datacenter.
● Many users of Mesos & Kubernetes understand it’s in the products they use.
Containers as a Service
● Agreement that CaaS encapsulates several parts SDLC. Container
orchestration and registries most associated with the term.
● AWS Elastic Container Service, Google Container Engine, Docker Cloud and
Datacenter
Job Role and Maturity of Container Deployment
Configuration Management

23. Where to Go Next
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Deployment Size: # of
Containers, # of VMs
running containers
Buying Preferences
IaaS-centric?
Kubernetes on
OpenStack or vice
versa?
Scale Bundling Other Topics
Workload Types
Audience Suggestions?

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For More Information
Lawrence Hecht
@lawrencehecht
research@thenewstack.io
503-473-6237
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