3 years ago

Category: Docker, Kubernetes

As an industry analyst, I spend a ton of time talking to developers, admins, devops guys, and higher level IT people to figure out what matters most for DevOps success. The biggest challenge is to separate the “fascinating stories” on the one hand and “what’s actually going on” on the other.

I deliberately limited this chart to only show the 20 strongest correlation rules the algorithm could find, and what I received is a chart that exactly maps today’s key DevOps challenges in REAL LIFE. Docker runtimes, Kubernetes container orchestration, and Jenkins pipelines is the core of what DevOps is struggling with today.

Here we see all of the “overhead” added, mostly in the form of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud specific technologies and terminology, but viewing this chart within the context of the first chart, it becomes very clear that the underlying problems we are solving with literally thousands of different technologies can be boiled down to: I know that there are caveats to this simplified world view, but the points stands in that it is critical to look at the “bare bones” (top chart) to actually understand the bigger and more complex picture (bottom chart).