Key Findings

• Enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders are keen to invest in container platform tools to enable improved developer productivity and software agility and reduce technical debt.
• The container ecosystem is rapidly evolving with new open-source projects and startups, which makes keeping abreast of changes very difficult.
• Kubernetes has become a popular platform for building cloud-native applications, but the key constraints are lack of adequate skills and mature DevOps practices to operationalize and succeed with large-scale production-grade deployments.
• Large cloud providers and CaaS/PaaS software vendors are competing to be the platform of choice for cloud-native apps. Multi-cloud management, DevOps toolchain integration, flexible consumption models and product maturity are among the key differentiators.