Running Containers and Kubernetes for Production. Are you Ready?
According to a recent study by Gartner, the container ecosystem is immature and lacks operational best practices. But adoption of containers and Kubernetes is increasing for legacy modernization and cloud-native applications. By 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 30% today. Key Challenges facing Business include: Container usage for production deployments in enterprises is still constrained by concerns regarding security, monitoring, data management and networking. Cloud-native applications require a high degree of infrastructure automation and specialized operations skills, which are not commonly found in enterprise IT organizations. Identifying, creating and empowering the right team is challenging, due to legacy mindsets and operational burdens on team members. There is a hodgepodge of competing vendor interests, uncertain monetization strategies and varie