I just returned from two days in Seattle at DockerCon 2016. What I learned at DockerCon this year can be summed up in four categories: Container adoption is on the rise Docker is winning by making containers simpler Docker is forging a path to win enterprise workloads The battle for orchestration just became more interesting
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Rightscale Publishes State of the Cloud Report for 2016
Rightscale just published a report called “State of the Cloud Report: DevOps Trends“. The report focuses on the adoption of DevOps and containers across both enterprises and SMBs. To nobody’s surprise, adoption rates of both containers and DevOps are on the rise. What is interesting is the rate of adoption, especially in large enterprises. Here …
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Stop Focusing on DevOps and Start Focusing on Delivering Business Outcomes
I have seen far too many definitions of the term DevOps. Everyone, including myself, has their own definition. Worse, I have seen even more interpretations of what “doing DevOps” means within enterprises. Here are a few examples of what some people think DevOps is: Automating infrastructure Building out CI/CD pipelines Writing Chef scripts Creating a new …
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The Container Round Up for February 2016
There is an enormous amount of activity going on in the container space these days. Rarely does a day go by without an announcement of new features and services that fills a much needed gap. In this article I summarize the state of the container industry and highlight some recent announcements from a few innovative container companies.
The Race to Own Orchestration
There are a number of companies that are in a race to own the enterprise landscape when it comes to infrastructure automation and development pipelines (aka continuous integration and continuous deployment). What is unfolding here is very similar to what we have witnessed in the cloud market.
Docker Acquires Tutum, Eyes Production Workloads
Docker announced today that they have acquired Tutum, a platform for managing Dockerized applications into production on any infrastructure.