State of Containers in the Public Cloud

Michael Gerstenhaber (@mikezvi, Sr.Director Prod Mgmt @Datadog) talks about the public cloud container usage, the evolution of Kubernetes adoption, application usage patterns and what's next.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your transition from engineer to product manager.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk out container usage in the public cloud. Beyond the rapid pace of growth/usage, what trends are you following the most closely?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique things that you have to do to monitor container usage, or provide unique data insights to containerized applications?

Topic 4 - We were surprised that only 50% of container usage is associated with Kubernetes. It’s been the de facto standard for the past several years. What else is orchestrating containers, or is it lots of one-off containers? 

Topic 5 - Large clusters are dominated by large nodes. That seems somewhat counter-intuitive. What do you think drives this pattern? 

Topic 6 - Lots of users are running older versions of Kubernetes. The CNCF has moved back to 3 releases a year. Do you expect that we’ll see longer life cycles supported in the future?

Topic 7 - Since the report was released, are you beginning to see any new trends that people should be keeping an eye on? 

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