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
4451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Q3 2015
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
5451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Q3 2015
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
6451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Software-Defined Infrastructure, Q4 2015
In-Use (Not Including Pilots)
In Pilot/Proof of Concept
Planning to Implement In the Next 6 Months
Planning to Implement In the Next 12 Months
Planning to Implement In the Next 24 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
7451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Software-Defined Infrastructure, Q4 2015
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)
9451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Q3 2015
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
10451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise: Software-Defined Infrastructure, Q4 2015
In-Use (Not Including Pilots)
In Pilot/Proof of Concept
Planning to Implement In the Next 6 Months
Planning to Implement In the Next 12 Months
Planning to Implement In the Next 24 Months
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]
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