Container adoption to be mainstream

In 2020, container adoption will lead to faster software production through more robust DevOps capabilities. Kubernetes will consolidate as de facto container orchestration platform. The popularity of container adoption or ‘containerization’ is driven by speed and ease. Containers are abstract data types that isolate an application from an OS. With containers, microservices are packaged with their dependencies and configurations. This makes it faster and easier to develop, ship and deploy services. The trend towards multi cloud means businesses need data to be portable across various clouds — especially major providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. 451 Research projects the market size of application container technologies to reach US$4.3 billion by 2022 and in 2020 more businesses will view containers as a fundamental part of their IT strategy.