Ruxit, a division of Digital Performance
software company Dynatrace, today announced findings from a new survey
titled: The State of Containers and the Docker Ecosystem 2015. The
report identifies key issues facing organizations using containers,
including in-production application performance monitoring to achieve
even more successful container deployments. Download the complete survey
report and infographic here.
The report, conducted by O’Reilly Media in
collaboration with Ruxit, provides insights into adoption, use, and
challenges of container technologies like Docker. Survey participants
represent 138 companies across a wide range of industries, including
software, consulting, publishing and media, education, cloud services,
hardware, retail, government and others.
Since Docker launched in 2013, more than 800 million containers have been pulled from the public Docker Hub
and this technology continues to capture the attention of developers
and operators alike. While container use is skyrocketing there are
barriers to success that need to be addressed.
Findings of the survey include:
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More than 93% of respondents are already using or plan to use containers for development, testing, or production.
- The vast majority (78%) are opting for Docker.
- Fast and easy deployment is the most important reason for using Docker (85%).
- Within the next 6-12 months, over half (53%) of all respondents plan to adopt containers in production.
- Nearly half (46%) see performance monitoring as a key challenge in the production environment.
- Reliable and production-ready solutions are required for
orchestration (56%), performance monitoring (46%) and automation (40%)
because containerized environments are extraordinarily dynamic, making
them uniquely challenging to monitor and manage in terms of performance.
“It’s crucial to monitor not just the
containers themselves, but to understand how microservices and
applications within the containers perform. This is where Ruxit is an
ideal match for those highly dynamic infrastructures,” said Ruxit CTO
Bernd Greifeneder. “The survey shows monitoring application performance
and scalability are key factors to success with container technology,
and over half of those planning a container deployment in the coming
6-12 months will do so in production. Ruxit is perfectly suited to
in-production performance monitoring of containerized applications, so
we couldn’t be in a stronger position.”
The container survey validates the need for
production-ready, stable, integrated solutions that address key
container challenges. Moreover, there are no other solutions on the
market that can monitor the performance of applications running inside
of containers without installing an agent on every container.
Ruxit allows organizations to install just one agent per host – which
can encompass many containers – making ease of installation and
scalability second to none.
Download the complete survey report and infographic here.