Published: 25 September 2023
Summary
Container management products and services are moving beyond basic orchestration and scheduling capabilities to meet advanced enterprise on-premises, edge, hybrid and multicloud requirements. I&O leaders should expand their shortlists to include these new offerings.
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Key Findings
Container management offerings are available from a range of diverse vendors. These offerings span from software to managed services and cloud, making it difficult for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to compare the various features and deployment considerations.
Interest in hybrid, multicloud and edge deployments continues to increase, and this interest is reflected in the critical capabilities and use cases assessed here. However, organizations evaluating container management solutions still face a lack of clarity regarding portability, vendor lock-in and ROI.
Providers are differentiating their offerings by augmenting foundational container orchestration with other functionality, such as distributed management of multiple clusters,
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Strategic Planning Assumption
- Alibaba Cloud
- Amazon Web Services
- Canonical
- Google
- Huawei
- Microsoft
- Mirantis
- Oracle
- Red Hat
- SUSE
- Tencent Cloud
- VMware
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Edge Infrastructure
- Heterogeneous Integration
- Managed Provisioning and Updates
- Cluster Fleet Management
- Platform Engineering Support
- Application Platform Capabilities
- Container Management Software Deployment
- Public Cloud Container Management Deployment
- Hybrid Deployment
- Self-Management Tooling
- Edge Container Management Deployment
- Serverless Container Deployment
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Critical Capabilities Methodology