Presenting at the April 2016 Container Camp, Alex Williams reported on the findings of a survey about container orchestration. There appears to be agreement that container orchestration includes cluster management, service discovery and scheduling functionality. Kubernetes, Docker Mesos and AWS ECS are the leading technology options. Ansible gets mentioned more than would be expected.

1. CLARITY
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about
CONTAINER
ORCHESTRATION
for a Developing Market

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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

4. What We Found
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Agreement: Service
Discovery, Scheduling,
Cluster Management
Configuration
Management
CaaS: more consensus
than expected
Orchestration Platforms
Products, CaaS & PaaS
Open source tools for
specific functionality
Market
Definition
Product
Choices
Selection
Criteria
Not looking for one
solution for everything
Integrated tooling more
important than
interoperability with
systems/ languages

5. The Data

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Only 45% consider configuration management to be
part of a container orchestration product.

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Scheduling is not top-of-mind when application
developers think of container orchestration.

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

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IT operations teams’ perspective on CaaS
differ from those doing DevOps.

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Vendors were parsimonious when defining container
orchestration and CaaS.

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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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.

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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.

19. Takeaways

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Contact Information
Founder & Editor in Chief
Alex Williams
@alexwilliams
alex@thenewstack.io
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