Kubernetes is king in container survey [Video]

Container monitoring company Sysdig also looked at the most popular apps running containers and found that no one container registry rules the roost

Kubernetes is in, container registries are a dime a dozen, and maximum container density isn’t the only detail that matters when running containers.

Those are some of the insights gleaned by Sysdig, maker of on-prem and in-cloud monitoring solutions, from customers for how they’re using containers in 2017.

Using a snapshot of Sysdig’s services that encompassed 45,000 running containers, Sysdig’s 2017 Docker Usage Report shows that container adoption is getting diversified by workload, and it covers some of the hot-or-not aspects of the new container stack.

Packing it in

Containers allow for much higher density on a given host than VMs, but according to Sysdig’s stats, the other benefits provided by containers are at least as important as how many you can cram into a given host. The average was …