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Containers: Great Idea, but Large-Scale Management of a Container Environment is Complex
Docker containers have become a popular way to streamline the environment that a self-contained application can run in. (Docker currently has 94 percent of the container market.) Container technology is hot and it is being used increasingly by enterprises to more efficiently use resources, save time, and improve the ability to deploy and distribute applications.
A report by ClusterHQ found that cluster deployments to production increased by 96 percent compared to 2015.
But there’s often a problem when there is too much of a good thing. Enterprises are now struggling with managing their collection of containerized applications. A study by the Cloud Foundry Foundation found that 82 percent of people say that “containers can be a challenge to get to scale.” What’s more, almost the same number say that even anything more complicated than just a few containers can quickly become very complicated.
Conclusions from the Cloud Foundry report include:
- Sound Technology. Two-third of IT Users like container technology and think that they will be mainstream by the end of the year
- Management problem at scale. Increased use of containers has led to a need for better tools to manage large numbers of containers
- Usability Choice. People would prefer to use a framework to manage containers rather than orchestration
