OpenStack: Its role in infrastructure modernization and containers

Description: As containers increase in popularity, they are beginning to grow their footprint in the world of compute consumption. As shown in Figure 1, containers are the fastest-growing forecast compute type but are still fairly modest in overall percentage, due to the complexity, skill sets, and processes required. However, virtual machines (VMs) are still growing as well, and both will coexistfor the foreseeable future as enterprises juggle existing and new applications. Industries are also beginning to leverage the cloud operating model everywhere, including their on-premises datacenters, which requires deployment of cloud infrastructure and cloud operational tools. These platforms can provide modern, agile features such as developer APIs, orchestration and automation, and self-service and will need to accommodate both traditional VMs and containers.