Containers
Solution providers should take note of how containers are enabling the development of microservices that will change how apps are built, deployed and managed.
35% are making broad use of containers or have standardized on them. Another third are either using them in isolated instances or evaluating them in a lab.
A full 79% whose companies are not using containers anticipate doing so within the next year.
More than half (54%) are running containers on VMware—followed by Microsoft Azure, at 32%; Microsoft Hyper V at, 31%; and VMware vCloud Air, at 29%. Bare-metal servers are at 18%. Just over 60% report running many containers on top of an instance of a virtual machine.
55% are running more than 100 containers during normal IT operation hours; 12% are running 1,000 or more. Meanwhile, 57% said that would be very likely to use containers in conjunction with virtual machines.
Almost half (49%) have deployed more than 100 to 1,000 images on top of containers; 8% have deployed more than 1,000.
Almost half (49%) are using both Docker Hub and the Docker Trusted Repository on premise and in the cloud.
A surprising 40% have little or no container security strategy in place. Only 26% have comprehensive security standards and the tools needed to implement them.
A full 91% are concerned about the security of containers, and 50% are very or extremely concerned.
More than four out of five (81%) said the addition of in-container security would push their companies to adopt more containers.
Ensuring all containers have a consistent security model from development through production (83%) tops the list, followed by preventing development mistakes from reaching production (82%) and detecting vulnerabilities in Docker containers (80%).