A look into the hype vs the reality of Docker, containers and microservices. What does cloud-native adoption look like today in the enterprise, and what's popular with developers? Is it Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, Blox, or something else?

1. Cloud Native: A dose of reality
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.
Research Director — Development, DevOps, & IT Ops
DevJam Docker Jam Session, December 2016

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Source: 451 Research/Microsoft Cloud+Hosting commissioned research
Minimizing risk, maximizing agility

3. 6%
28%
34%
23%
3%
1%
3%
0%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
DevOps & CD: a prerequisite for cloud native
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Source: 451 Research/Red Hat, Q1 2016, n=201

4. Enter containers: Developers love Docker
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5. 56.1%
10.7%
3.9%
4.2%
2.1%
22.9%
31.5%
10.2%
8.4%
9.4%
4.7%
35.8%
19.1%
10.0%
6.7%
9.5%
4.6%
50.1%
Discovery and Evaluation
Running Trials/Pilot Projects
In Test and Development Environment
Initial Implementation of Production
Applications
Broad Implementation of Production
Applications
No Plans
Q1 2015 Q3 2015 Q1 2016
Docker is not just a toy
5
14.1%}
Source: 451 Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud; 1Q15 n=991; 3Q15 n=960; 1Q16 n=461
of cloud-using orgs
Prod in 1Q16:

6. Container management & orchestration:
The foundation of microservices
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7. Kubernetes seeing the most developer traction
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8. Container orchestration is limited (∴ adoption immature)
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451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Q3 2015
9.4%
36.1%
39.9%
14.6%
Currently use
Considering using in the next two years
Not familiar with these tools
Have no plans to use in the next two years
n = 534

9. Complexity is the new normal
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10. REA microservices timeline
10
0
20
40
60
0 6 12 18 24
Microservices
Months
http://yowconference.com.au/slides/yow2014/SkurrieBottcherEvans-MonolithsToMicroservices.pdf
“ Microservices is a
long term strategy.”
– Evan Bottcher,
ThoughtWorks/REA,
9 Dec 2014

11. From primitive to framework
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12. From primitive to framework to platforms
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FaaS
(Serverless)
PaaS
IaaS
CaaS
Config mgmt
Container orch
VMs
Container
s
OpinionatedFlexible

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Thank you!
Donnie Berkholz
Twitter: @dberkholz
donnie.berkholz@451research.com

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