the openstack pulse: containers and platforms

The OpenStack Pulse:Containers and PlatformsDonnie Berkholz, Ph.D.Research Director — Development, DevOps, & IT Ops

Excerpt from “The OpenStack Pulse: Unbiased research on enterprise demand, TCO, and market size”

with Al Sadowski, OpenStack summit, Austin TX, April 2016

Developers love Docker

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Docker is not just a toy

3451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud

Discovery and Evaluation

Running Trials/Pilot Projects

In Test and Development Environment

Initial Implementation of Production Applications

Broad Implementation of Production Applications

No Plans

31.5%

10.2%

8.4%

9.4%

4.7%

35.8%

56.1%

10.7%

3.9%

4.2%

2.1%

22.9%

Q1 2015 (n = 960)

Prod/test in Q3 2015:22.5%}of cloud-using orgs

Container adoption will grow in many venues

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On-Premises Private Cloud

Hosted Private Cloud

Public Cloud

31.5%

10.2%

8.4%

39.8%

31.4%

28.8%

2017 (n = 430)

Container workloads: led by infrastructure


Application Development

Engineering/R&D/Technical Computing

Web (excluding search)

Line of Business (LOB) Applications

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Mobility Management

42.5%

31.0%

24.8%

22.1%

21.2%

n = 113

Containers in the OpenStack universe

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In-Use (Not Including Pilots)

In Pilot/Proof of Concept

Planning to Implement In the Next 6 Months



Not In Plan

10.1%

20.5%

3.8%

5.5%

7.0%

56.2%

55.0%

2.3%

2.5%

5.0%

1.3%

15.0%

Enterprises w/ OpenStack (n = 80)

Containers vs VMs: no clear approach


Containers Run Separately from VMs

Containers Run On Top Of VMs

Containers Are Replacing VMs

9.3%

12.2%

7.2%

23.1%

32.7%

23.1%

Enterprises w/ OpenStack (n = 52)

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From primitives to platforms

ServerlessPaaSCaaS

Container orchestrati

on

IaaS / Containe

rs

OpinionatedFlexible

Container orchestration is limited (∴ adoption immature)


Currently use

Considering using in the next two years

Not familiar with these tools

Have no plans to use in the next two years

9.4%

36.1%

39.9%

14.6%

n = 534

Private PaaS popular in OpenStack-using enterprises


In-Use (Not Including Pilots)

In Pilot/Proof of Concept




Not In Plan

28.8%

10.6%

3.1%

5.1%

7.3%

45.2%

53.1%

12.3%

3.7%

3.7%

2.5%

24.7%

Enterprises w/ OpenStack (n = 81) Enterprises w/o OpenStack (n = 550)

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Wrap-up• Containers are growing quickly in the enterprise, with particularly

strong adoption among OpenStack adopters

• Opinionated platforms (i.e. PaaS) dominate today, but we expect unopinionated container orchestration to increase

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Questions? Feel free to reach out. Donnie BerkholzTwitter: @[email protected]