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If your organisation is not allowing its developers to use container technologies, then you will very soon be in the minority, according to the latest analysis from DigitalOcean.<\/p>\n
The company, in its latest quarterly Currents report assessing developer trends in cloud computing, found 49% of devs are now using containers in some form. Of that number, JavaScript (57%) was the most popular language used with them, ahead of Python (46%), PHP (36%), and Go (28%). Three in five (60%) said they were using containers both for testing and development and production, while three quarters (78%) of those who aren’t using containers today still plan to adopt them.<\/p>\n
Scalability is the name of the game for container adoption according to the report, with 39% of respondents citing it as the key aspect. Simpler software testing (24%), quicker software testing (23%) and avoiding vendor lock-in (10%) were also cited.<\/p>\n
Not altogether surprisingly, Kubernetes is the biggest game in town. 42% of those polled say they use it, compared with 35% for nearest rival Docker Swarm. Red Hat’s OpenShift (5%), Apache Mesos (3%), and CoreOS Tectonic (1%) all polled negligibly. Yet smaller companies are more likely to be Docker houses – of those with five employees or fewer, Docker Swarm (41%) won out over Kubernetes (31%).<\/p>\n
Compared with a relatively strong consensus on where container technologies sit, developers’ knowledge and enthusiasm over serverless computing was somewhat split. Only half of those polled said they had a strong understanding of it, with four in five of those who don’t (81%) saying they plan to do further research this year. Around one in three – 35% for the US, 32% for the UK – say they have deployed applications in a serverless environment over the past year, with AWS Lambda (58%) the most popular platform, ahead of Google Cloud Functions (23%).<\/p>\n
With this in mind, what should prospective employees and their employers be looking for? 39% of devs polled said their top considerations for new jobs were a competitive salary and opportunity for internal growth, while the company product (17%) and freedom to use particular technologies (23%) were lower down on the list. The research also found that many developers are still going down the traditional college route – more than half (51%) said they went to college, compared with only 6% who attended a coding bootcamp.<\/p>\n
The report polled more than 4,800 respondents, with more than half (55%) saying they were developers, 13% working in DevOps and 10% saying they were students or managers respectively.<\/p>\n