Kubernetes Is De Facto Leader In Container Battle
The open-source Kubernetes is becoming the container orchestration tool of choice, according to the State of the Cloud report.
While there continues to be strong growth in the use of Docker, Kubernetes – which leverages Docker – has a faster adoption rate that’s skyrocketing, survey respondents said.
Kubernetes adoption, meanwhile, jumped to 48 percent from 27 percent last year.Docker adoption, meanwhile, increased to 57 percent among survey respondents, up from 49 percent last year.
“That’s a big jump from last year, and it’s essentially saying that Kubernetes is the de facto leader in the container orchestration space,” said Kim Weins, vice president of cloud strategy at software solutions provider Flexera, which acquired survey founder RightScale in September.
For public cloud container-as-a-service offerings, Amazon ECS and EKZ container services’ adoption rate remained flat at 44 percent. Microsoft Azure Container Service’s adoption rate climbed to 28 percent from 20 percent in the 2018 survey, while Google Kubernetes Engine’s adoption rate inched up to 15 percent from 14 percent.